Chris Gehlker wrote:
> I'm trying to help a Linux newbie migrate his personal data from
> Outlook to Evolution and so far the solutions I have found seem
> unnecessarily convoluted.
> Here are the approaches I have found so far:
> 1. Install something like Thunderbird or Eudora that can import .pst
> files and then move the mbox files to Linux. This involves re-nesting
> all your folders.
> 2. Move the .pst file to OS X and use one of the specialized freeware
> or shareware conversion programs. Surprisingly Entourage, The OS X
> version of Outlook, can't read .pst files.
>
> I suspect that if there are specialized .pst->mbox programs for OS X
> then there are Linux versions of these programs but Google isn't being
> helpful.
> --
> A young idea is a beautiful and a fragile thing. Attack people, not
> ideas.
>
If you set up an IMAP server, you can simply use Outlook to move the
messages out of the local pst file into the IMAP store. Then you can
access the email from any IMAP client (including Blackberry).
Probably not the solution you're looking for though. :( And that does
nothing about contacts, etc.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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