FreeBSD Transition Questions.

Grant Peel gpeel at thenetnow.com
Tue Jan 13 11:37:55 PST 2009


Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger <cswiger at mac.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote:
>>     
>>> A couple of more questions if anyone has the time.
>>> 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it
>>> can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running
>>> Thunderbord on FreeBSD), there is no option to do this. Is there a way?
>>>       
>> Aside from doing the import on Windows?  Unix versions of T'bird have no
>> knowledge of Microsoft's PST files, but I suppose you could upload your
>> Outlook email to an IMAP server and then download those messages normally
>> from there.
>>     
>
> Outlook != Outlook Express. OE, last I looked, stores its mail in a
> .mbx file, which isn't compatible with .pst files.
>
> Beyond that, I can't say.
>
> Kurt
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Hi Guys,

Looking at the folders on Outlook Express, they are in *.dbx format.

Does this help?

-Grant


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