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Convert from Microsoft formats to RFC mbox format
I need a way to failproof-convert a large number of Microsoft Outlook 98 .pst files containing nothing but mailboxes to the standard RFC mbox format as used by Pine etc.
Alternatively, I need a method to convert from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 to the same mbox format.
Anyone?
Alternatively, I need a method to convert from Microsoft Outlook Express 5 to the same mbox format.
Anyone?
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I think outlook 98 does, but since I've made my vicinity an ms-free zone I can't say for certain. And yes, once you've got the data on an SMTP capable server you ought to be able to use fetchmail to move it to some other system.
One anonouncement on Freshmeat.net seems to be promising:
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mbx2mbox 0.32
David Coppit - March 29th 2000, 13:44 EST
mbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx format mailboxes to the standard RFC822 mailboxes used by programs like
Pine, Eudora, and Netscape.
http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/923934360/
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mbx2mbox 0.32
David Coppit - March 29th 2000, 13:44 EST
mbx2mbox attempts to convert Microsoft's proprietary .mbx and .dbx format mailboxes to the standard RFC822 mailboxes used by programs like
Pine, Eudora, and Netscape.
http://apps.freshmeat.net/homepage/923934360/
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it's uploading to IMAP now for 4 days and has about 3 more to go (40,000+ messages) :)
that was a good call!
that was a good call!
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i have access to an imap server that i could use but it isn't the machine that i want the final files to be on. can i use fetchmail or the like to dump all impa messages to a local mailbox?