From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 11:20:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEA8F37B42A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:20:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from taz.sindrome.net (taz.sindrome.net [209.172.186.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5690243E65 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:20:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sindrome@sindrome.net) Received: by taz.sindrome.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8249674CDA; Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:20:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 13:20:41 -0500 From: Troy To: Jordi YC Cc: MET , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MS Outlook data transfer Message-ID: <20020807132041.A12425@sindrome.net> Reply-To: sindrome@sindrome.net References: <000701c23e1c$ab383870$6901a8c0@SURVIVAL> <3D515FDC.9030908@lycos.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3D515FDC.9030908@lycos.es>; from jordi_yc@lycos.es on Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 01:58:52PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have done this type of migration in the past. It works well. Simply install imap-uw as stated below. I also use postfix rather than sendmail with imap-uw. Make sure that when you make imap-uw, put the switch WITH_MICROSOFT_BRAIN_DAMAGE (for obvious reasons) I manually created mbox files in my $home/Mail directory by using mutt, but you can create them using Outlook (even) when you are connected via IMAP. Once those were created, I connected to the Freebsd server from a M$ workstation using an outlook client using IMAP. I did this with both Outlook and Outlook Express. I then manually went into each M$ folder, did a ctrl-a (select all) and dragged the mail to the respective mbox folder. Once that was done, I was able to get all of the old mail from the M$ mailboxes in mutt or from any standard IMAP client. -Troy > Hi, > > Using an IMAP server can be a possible solution. Install imap-uw IMAP > server on the new laptop, then create a new IMAP account in Outlook and > transfer all the email to the server. Then, do the same thing from > evolution, but in the opposite direction. > > Please let me know if this works for you and experiences if you decide > to go ahead with this possibility. > > HTH > > MET wrote: > > >I've been using Outlook for the past few years now (yell at me later) > >and have recently picked up a brand new laptop which I'm installing > >FreeBSD on today. What I'm basically wondering.....is there a way to > >get all of my massive archived mail from my Win2k desktop running > >Outlook onto a good GUI mailer app for FreeBSD (Evolution preferably) ? > >Or am I just going to have to start from scratch ? > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message