From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 17:34:36 2004 Return-Path: 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 32B1C16A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:34:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lorna.circlesquared.com (host217-45-219-83.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.45.219.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1709443D1D for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Received: from circlesquared.com (localhost.circlesquared.com [127.0.0.1]) i69HXjcv049018; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:33:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from peter@circlesquared.com) Message-ID: <40EED6F9.1070905@circlesquared.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:33:45 +0100 From: Peter Risdon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <2850a22038acceca1101ca.20040709092043.wzyrjvf@www.dslextreme.com> <20040709125018.66e83a69.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040709125018.66e83a69.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: jmlewis@dslextreme.com cc: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 17:34:36 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > "Joshua Lewis" wrote: > > >>Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook >>.PST file. >> >>If I can move my old e-mail onto my new machine then I can be done with >>Microsoft. > > > This is a bit of "the long way around", but I've done it, so I know it > works. > > We set up a temporary IMAP server, and used Outlook to copy all the mail > and folders up to the IMAP server. Then you can just connect to the IMAP > server with your new mail client to get at all your stuff. Another workaround - amplifying a suggestion by another poster. You're obviously running windows now. Install Mozilla, fire up the mail client, do NOT let it become the default mail application, go to tools - import and import your outlook mail, and addresses (this only works if Outlook is still the default mail application). Copy the whole mozilla profile - location depends on your version of windows to CD or whatever. Install mozilla on FreeBSD, fire it up (to create the ~/.mozilla tree), close it down, copy the folders and files from inside the .slt folder from windows to inside the .slt folder in .mozilla/profilename/ Peter.