[TriLUG] Converting Unix mailboxes to Outlook pst format: batch mode

[Jon Carnes]

Depending on the version of Outlook you are using, you can do all the
conversions on one machine, share out that mail folder, go to the client
box and import their particular mailbox.  Might be faster.

Automating mundane windows tasks is not one of my specialties (thank
god!), though in the long ago I did use a "recording" device that turned
my keystrokes (and mouse clicks) into a macro that I could export from
machine to machine.

If I were you, I would simply print up a fool proof web-page showing
folks what to do, make the imap mailboxes Read-only, and then turn the
users loose onto the task.  Then you only have to help the execs and
Lusers that can't follow basic written instructions to do easy tasks.

You'll also have to log who accesses which files - and let folks know
you are doing that...

Alternately, you could turn an intern loose onto the job. Repetitive,
boring, mundane tasks are their tofu and potatoes.

Good Luck - Jon

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:06, Glen Ford wrote:
> Glen Ford wrote:
> 
> > Jon Carnes wrote:
> >
> >> Run an IMAP daemon on the server in question (or copy the MBox still
> >> mailboxes up to a server running an IMAP daemon) - setup the users to
> >> download the email via IMAP.
> >>
> >> Works like a charm.
> >>
> >> Jon Carnes
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:19, Glen Ford wrote:
> >>  
> >>
> >>> Looking for any pointers.  I have a need to convert massive amounts 
> >>> of unix style mailboxes to Outlook PST format mailboxes.
> >>>
> >>> Ideally would like to run in batch mode. I have done google search 
> >>> for convertion tools. So far nothing that is both capable of batch 
> >>> mode & mbox ---> outlook.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any feedback is appreciated,
> >>> /Glen
> >>>   
> >>
> >>
> >>  
> >>
> > Jon,
> >
> >    You were right, it did work like a charm. Thank you very much !
> >
> > /glen
> >
> 
> Anyway to automate(batch) the setting up of the Outlook accounts?
>  I am getting tired of doing it manually.
> 
> 
> I to keep the one-to-one relationship between a mbox and its outlook pst 
> file.
> 
> Thanks,
> /glen