Re: I loathe to ask this ... but I have to use outlook for email now

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 07/18/03 

Date: 18 Jul 2003 17:57:38 GMT

In article <bf9505$m7k$1@phys-news-1.colt-telecom.nl>, Peter Walker wrote:
> Okay, swallow the bullet and cringe then ask ...
>
> I use Linux and FreeBSD at work for all the serious stuff, as one should
> when they are a unix systems engineer.
>
> I have had a windows pc at the side of my Linux w/station for a couple of
> years that I have only ever used for compiling the couple of windows
> programs that we deploy.
>
> Now I have been told that our unix mail server is being removed next week,
> it's been threatened for ages, so I have no choice but to now start using a
> ms exchange based mail server via outlook.
>
> So does anyone know how I can transfer years of historic emails from my
> kmail system to outlook?

Don't give up yet!

The SMTP and IMAP implimentations in Exchange Server work OK
most of the time. If the leave them enabled, then you can use
fetchmail to grab your mail, and configure your MTA to send
stuff to Exchange Server's SMTP server as appropriate.

Or you can use any other IMAP-capable mail client you like.

If they insist on IMAP clients using MS's goofy-assed
authentication (NTLM), then fetchmail is probably the best
method since it knows how to do NTLM auth. There used to be
NTLM patches for mutt, but I don't think they've been kept
current.

There's a POP implimentation in Exchange Server, but I've heard
lots of bad things about it, and the common wisdom seems to be
that Exchange Server IMAP works much better.

If they don't leave IMAP enabled, there are still ways to
"script" Outlook to suck e-mail out of the system and turn it
over to a "real" computer via SMTP. This involves running a
small app on your windows machine that uses the COM API built
into outlook to fetch messages. Then the app just sends them
to the SMTP server on your real computer. 

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Grant Edwards                   grante             Yow!  I always have fun
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