Evolution importing Outlook data

[Michael Hipp]

Yes. This supposedly works for the email and maybe contacts but it does 
nothing for the tasks and calendar.

Michael

On Monday 08 July 2002 08:12 am, Zoki wrote:
> *** This is a trick from a gnome mailing list:
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> 1/
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> Subject: Re: Does Evolution support Outlook *.pst files?
> Date: 13 Apr 2002 16:58:51 -0400
>
>
> John,
>
> No. The best way to import Outlook .pst files into Evolution is to
> install Mozilla on your Windows system and use Mozilla to import the
> .pst files and then use Mozilla to export the mail to mbox format.
> Evolution can then import these mbox files.
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>
> This would also work with Eudora as it uses the *.mbox format.
>
>
> 2/
>
> This article does not give a lot of hope for the time being. On the other
> hand seeing the source, you should take the info with a grain of sault:
>
> http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/02/01/28/020128tcximian.xml
>
>
> I am afraid there is no simple solution for the migration and Outlook
> does not make the task easy. Its import/export features are very poor and
> badly designed. I had to import mailboxes from Eudora and had to pass
> through OE to get the job done. The contacts however cannot be imported.
>
> Sorry.