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

From: Peter Walker (Pep_at_ticketweb.co.uk)
Date: 07/21/03


Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 12:11:28 +0100

Dave {Reply Address in.sig} wrote:

> In message <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?
>>
> I'm sort of in a similar situation where I was transferring email from
> kmail to evolution. An IMAP server is your friend, if that's not what
> you've been using then install a temporary one somewhere, set up a mail
> account on it, connect to it with kmail and copy all your folders across.
> You can then connect to it with Outlook and copy the mail across to your
> new mail server.
>
> Note that MS Exchange does work as an IMAP server, assuming they've
> configured it properly, so you might just be able to arrange to connect to
> that from kmail and copy stuff across that way. Get your IT people to
> leave the old server accessible for a week or two to ease the changeover.
>
> Dave

Sounds an interesting way of doing the transfer, so I might give this a try.

If it does not work then Stan (further down in the thread) pointed out that
I might be able to mug outlook in to thinking the kmail folders are eudora
as they are both ascii files.

Cheers,
Pep.



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