From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 19:28:27 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 DEC3416A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B979343D4C for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:28:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from johnmills@speakeasy.net) Received: (qmail 11574 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2004 19:28:27 -0000 Received: from dsl027-162-100.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO otter.localdomain) ([216.27.162.100]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 9 Jul 2004 19:28:26 -0000 Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.localdomain (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i69JST405450; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:28:29 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: otter.localdomain: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:28:29 -0500 (EST) From: John Mills X-X-Sender: jmills@otter.localdomain To: FreeBSD-questions In-Reply-To: <20040709124405.3e818e31@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: jmlewis@dslextreme.com 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 Reply-To: John Mills List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 19:28:28 -0000 Freebies - On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, epilogue wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:20:43 -0700 (PDT) > "Joshua Lewis" wrote: > > > Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook > > .PST file. > > i don't know of clients which support both (not that they don't exist), > however there are tools out there to convert between the formats. i have > not used any myself, so i cannot speak to the degree of success in > converting (though i assume its good). I recently migrated a friend's e-mail from Outlook [Distress?] to MacOS-X. I had a bit of handwork, but basically: 1) Exported the Outlook info in 'csv' format 2) Exported a sample address book as csv from my target (maybe the Mac mail reader - I don't remember, but anyway it's a system resource in MacOS-X: one address book seems to fit all clients) 3) Loaded both into a spreadsheet - probably StarOffice so try OpenOffice 4) Moved a few fields around so the Outlook export would match the target NOW: 5) Saved from the spreadsheet in Data Interchange Format 6) Slurped the *.dif into the new agent. There are scripts for much of this, but I was as well off 'by hand' for this one shot. You may be able to skip some steps depending on your source and target options. HTH. - John Mills john.m.mills@alum.mit.edu