Outlook to Evolution

Mozilla under Windows can access the .pst Outlook files because it can use the Windows MAPI.DLL library. Using MAPI.DLL is the only way to access .pst files, and it can be used under a Windows operating system. To start importing your Outlook mail to Evolution, run Mozilla Mail on Windows and select the Importer to begin: File > Import Then select the .pst file that you wish to import Mail from Outlook. Once Mozilla has imported all your mail, reboot your computer into Linux. Mount your Windows partition in Linux and run Evolution to begin importing your mail. Select the Importer from the File menu to start importing: File > Import File... Set the file type to "MBox (mbox)" and click on [Browse] to select the file containing mail you want to import. If you are the only user on Windows, the mail files will be stored in /mnt/windows/c/Windows/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/XXXX/Mail/imported.mail/ where /mnt/windows/c/ is your windows partition mount point and XXXX is some collection of numbers and digits ending in .slt. If there is more than one user, the file will be in /mnt/windows/c/windows/Profiles/USERNAME/XXXX/ Mail/imported.mail/ where USERNAME is your Windows username. For each mail folder in Outlook, Mozilla will convert the folder into one mbox file. To import all your mail, import all the files into Evolution, that do not a .msf extension. ALTERNATIVELY You may want to get the conversion program libpst-0.3beta1.tgz which can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ol2mbox/ ************************************************************************** To import your contacts from Outlook you will need to export all of your contact folders in Outlook to a .csv file. To do this in Outlook: Click on File > Import and Export.... Choose "Export to a file" and click [Next]. For the file type choose "Comma Separated Values (DOS)". Click [Next]. If you have sub-folders under "Contacts" each sub-folder must be exported separately. Name the exported files "same_as_outlook_folder.csv" (sans quotes and keep a note of the path). Click [Next]. Click [Finish]. To import contacts.csv into Evolution you will have to run each .csv file through the attached Perl script (csv2vcard.pl). Download csv2vcard.pl into your home directory and make the script executable by running this command: $ chmod +x ~/csv2vcard.pl Run this script to convert contacts.csv to contacts.vcf: $ ./csv2vcard.pl contacts.csv contacts.vcf Once you have contacts.vcf, you can import it into Evolution by: Clicking File > Import. Click [Next]. Click on "Import from a single file" Click [Next] again. For file type choose "VCard...". Click [Browse] and select your file. Click [Next] then [Import]. ************************************************************************** Download http://jdshelp.org//howtos/evolution...set_ISO-8859-1 01-csv2vcard.pl Last edited by tadelste; 10-19-2004 at 05:22 PM..