Re: [Sheflug] Microsoft Outlook to Redhat 9 Mozilla

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:22 +0000, J Simpson V21 wrote:
> Has anyone successfully moved their emails and setting from Microsoft
> Outlook to Mozilla or Evolution in Redhat 9?
> 
> In fact at this point I would be willing to hear of any successful move from
> Microsoft Outlook to  Linux.

Moving to either should be easy. But the trick is to move from Outlook
to Mozilla on *Windows* first - mail applications on Windows can easily
read Outlook stuff because it's built into the OS; it's a lot harder on
other platforms.

So, once you've installed Mozilla (or whatever) and imported your mail
from Outlook (and contacts and things, presumably) you will then have
your mail in a fairly standard format (where it actually is stored
varies from Windows version to version, but [for example] the Mozilla
accounts panel will tell you the filesystem folder it's using). That can
then be transferred to a Linux system, and you should be able to access
your mail there.

There are various pages out there which document this process, viz.:

	http://support.real-time.com/tbird/outlook_import.html

(Btw, I would recommend trying thunderbird if you haven't already)

Cheers,

Alex.

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