marc

When changing from Window$ to Kubuntu, I would like to keep my e-mail
archive, including e-mail attachements.

Is there a way to import Outlook pst files in Kontact ?
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Marc

cbfalconer

I believe Thunderbird can import Outlook files on installation in
Windows. Having done that you should be able to move them to
Kubuntu and access them with a Kubuntu Thunderbird installation.
Just theorizing, never done it.

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marc

This might be possible,
but I'm using Kontact (Kmail)
Is there an export from thunderbird to Kontact ?

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Marc

cushie

I'm in the same position. I've been using Thunderbird in XP for a few
weeks, addresses and email store imported from OEx ok, I had to copy my
news list individually.
Now my intention is to export the same files to USB stick and import
them to Ub'u. Likewise Firefox imported all my Favourites from IE and
similarly across to Linux. (You could read the same files direct from
XP if you wish.) Have fun.

arnold

Try them in lidf format.

garry knight

Thunderbird keeps its mail in mbox-format files, one file per mail folder.
If you look in ~/.thunderbird/******xx.default/Mail/pop.server.net/
(where '******xx' is an 8-alphanumeric code and 'pop.server.net' is a
folder for (one of) your pop server(s)), you'll see files with names
like 'Inbox' and 'Inbox.msf', 'Sent' and 'Sent.msf'. The .msf files are
index files for the mail folders: they index the start of each e-mail in
the folder with that name, and the non-.msf file holds the e-mails, one
after another - in other words, the non.msf files equate to Thunderbird's
mail folders.

All you need to do is copy these non.msf files into your Kmail mail
directory (in the case of my Mandriva 2007 Free, it's in
~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail) - and make sure you don't overwrite any
existing files with the same names.

Make sure Kmail isn't running when you do this. Then, when you restart
Kmail, it will find the new files and index them, and the new folders will
show up in the left-hand pane.

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baldylocks-ubuntu

On Wednesday 07 March 2007 18:57 arnold licked his pencil and jotted:

Hello

Newbie to Linux myself, just bitten the bullet and installed on main PC.
Very impressed with Kontact as an Outlook replacement. Have been googling
the possibility of importing .pst files and have found a utility
called "outport" it runs under windows and gives options for exporting to
suitable formats that Kontact can then import. Not tried it myself yet but
might give you another option.

http://outport.sourceforge.net/

David
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marc

I found a solution.
In Wondow$, I export my outlook mails in outlook express format.
Kontact can import Outlook express data.

No direct import in kontact, but it works

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Marc