Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution
tickticker
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Wed, 4 Jun 2003 20:06:26 -0400
Should this go on the plug site? It's looks fairly complete. It might be a good start for a wiki.
anthony
From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@carlparrish.com>
Date: 2003/06/04 Wed PM 07:48:11 EDT
To: Plug-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution
Importing Mail Messages
To import mail messages from Netscape Communicator, Outlook, Outlook
Express, or Eudora, begin from the Mail window:
1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Import Wizard.
2. Follow the instructions to import mail messages.
For Netscape Communicator, the wizard imports a copy of all Communicator
mail folders included under Local Folders. Imported mail is added as a
new folder under Local Folders in the Mail window. (The Communicator
mail folders still remain in their original location).
Importing Mail Settings
To import mail settings from Outlook, Outlook Express, or Eudora, begin
from the Mail window:
1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Import Wizard.
2. Follow the instructions to import mail settings.
Importing Address Books
If you have a Netscape 6 address book from another user profile or
computer, or if you have an address book from a previous version of
Netscape Communicator or another mail program, you can import its
entries into the Address Book window as a new address book. Keep in mind
that when you upgrade a user profile from an earlier version of
Netscape, your address books are automatically included, so there's no
need to import them.
You can import address books from Communicator, Netscape 6, Eudora,
Outlook, Outlook Express, or text files (LDIF, tab-delimited (.tab),
comma-separated (.csv), or text (.txt) formats). When you import an
address book, Mail & Newsgroups creates a new address book with the
imported entries.
You can also import mail messages and settings from Communicator,
Eudora, Outlook, and Outlook Express.
To import an address book, begin from the Mail window:
1. Open the Tools menu, and choose Import. You see the Mail Import
Wizard.
2. Follow the instructions to import address books.
3.
Tip: Communicator address book files (pab.na2) are stored in your
user profile directory (for example, C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users,
where \Users contains the user profiles directories).
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Exporting Address Books
You can export a Netscape address book if you later want to import it
into another user profile, move it to another computer, or use it with
another program that can import address books. You can export an address
book to one of these file formats: Netscape (.ldif), tab-delimited
(.tab), comma-separated (.csv), or text (.txt) formats.
To export an address book, begin from the Address Book window:
1. Select the address book that you want to export.
2. Open the Tools menu, and choose Export.
3. In the Export Address Book dialog box, browse to the location
where you want to save the address book file.
4. Choose the file format for the exported address book (.ldif,
comma-separated, or tab-delimited).
5. Enter a name for the address book file. Be sure to include the
appropriate file extension (.ldif, .csv, .tab, or .txt).
6. Click Save.
I'll look for that URL for you.
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:47, George Gambill wrote:
> Carl,
>
> First, I couldn't find the "official answer (and it was easy) on the ximian
> site". Looked all over "http://www.ximian.com". Would you by any chance
> have a URL?
>
> Second, I installed (on my Win2K box) Mozilla 1.3.1 (Browser). I can't seem
> to find a way to import (Outlook Contacts or Messages) into Mozilla. I'm
> not finding a import (or export) function in the menus. Any help you could
> provide here will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Craig,
>
> We "are" talking "Address Book" (contacts) but you introduce an interesting
> thought (messages). I looked through the PLUG archives for the last year
> and didn't find any threads on the topic. 8-(
>
> I downloaded and installed (Win2K box) Netscape 7.02 (browser). I am not
> finding an "import" (of export) function. Could you give me some key
> strokes for this? Also, I'm not sure what you mean by "then drag the
> address book over to Linux".
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution
> From: Carl Parrish <cparrish@carlparrish.com>
> To: Plug-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: 30 May 2003 10:40:41 -0700
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> There is an official answer (and it was easy) on the ximian site. But
> all I did was import from Outlook to Mozilla then Import from Mozilla to
> evolution. (I believe evolution uses the same mbox format we do).
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:22, George Gambill wrote:
> Looking at the Export/Import routines of both systems it seems that:
>
> Evolution can import:
> Outlook Express 4 (.mbx)
> VCard (.vcf, .gcrd)
> LDAP (Data Interchange Format (.ldif)
> MBox (.mbox)
> iCalander Files (.ics)
>
> MS Outlook Can Export:
> Comma Separated Values (DOS)
> Comma Separated Values (Win)
> Tab Separated Values (DOS)
> Tab Separated Values (Win)
> dBase
> MS Access (.mdb)
> MS Excel
> MS FoxPro (.dbf)
> Personal Folder (.pst)
>
> Anyone know of a data conversion routine (preferably on Linux) that can
> create (from MS Outlook) to one of the Evolution data structures???
>
> I have spent hours googling for such a critter. 8-(
>
> Thanks
>
> George
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: Converting MS Outlook Address Book to Evolution
> From: Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Organization:
> Date: 30 May 2003 10:40:50 -0700
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 10:22, George Gambill wrote:
> > Looking at the Export/Import routines of both systems it seems that:
> >
> ... snip ...
> ----
> If we are talking Address Book (Outlook refers to them as Contacts) then
> ldif should work as long as you convert the line endings to proper unix
> format CR/LF to LF
>
> My method was to run Netscape on Windows, import the contacts using
> Netscape on Windows and then drag the address book over to Linux and
> import that into Netscape/Mozilla and Evolution can import that.
>
> If you are talking mail...we have discussed that in the not to recent
> past.
>
> Craig
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