[TriLUG] Outlook conversion

[Jon Carnes]

Currently there is no direct way of importing all the mail from Outlook 
directly into Evolution - unless the mail is all stored on the server.  A 
lot of Exchange users store at least a portion of their mail on the server.

If you set the Exchange server to allow IMAP, then the evolution client can 
simply download any of the the mail stored on the Exchange server via IMAP.
This makes Option 1) below very simple to do.  The client then simply 
uploads any folders to the server that they want to move over to evolution. 
It's actually fairly easy - though tedious.

Another option, is to actually purchase the Ximian Connector which lets 
evolution talk directly to the Exchange server... if that happens to be the 
sort of thing you want to do!

http://www.itworld.com/nl/lnx_desktop/01312002/

Good Luck - Jon

On Friday 30 August 2002 04:40 pm, Tarus Balog wrote:
> Maria Winslow said:
> > Does anyone have experience migrating a user from Outlook to Evolution,
> > particularly when they think of email as a massive filing system (500
> > or more  emails, addresses, etc)?
>
> I had to deal with this myself. It seems that Outlook .pst files are
> proprietary. There were two ways to do this:
>
> 1) Build an IMAP server. Connect and move all of the files from Outlook
> to the IMAP server. Connect to the IMAP server with Evolution and move
> them back.
>
> 2) Use Netscape (and I believe Mozilla). On Windows, they can use the DLL
> that will allow them to convert .pst to mail format. Then you can move
> them to Evolution, which reads mail format.
>
> -T