[Linux-disciples] readpst

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 10:48:50AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> I think it's worked for me in the past. The most reliable way to get
> mail out of PST files is to load it in Outlook and transfer it to your
> mailboxes over IMAP.

Someone on debian-user or ubuntu-users suggested importing
the PST file into Thunderbird or the Mozilla Suite under
Windows, then saving it out from there. Turns out that if
you tell Thunderbird to import from Outlook or Outlook
Express, it assumes you want to open the current user's O or
OE mailboxes from c:\Documents and Settings\[blah] -- i.e.,
you can't tell it which PST to import. I consider that an
annoying defect. I emailed one of the Mozilla support lists
to see if they have any suggestions.

Really, it seems as though it shouldn't be hard to yank the
Outlook-import code out of the Thunderbird source, then set
it up as a separate package. It would basically be doing
readpst's job, but presumably do it better.

Finally, it's not just messages I need to extract from the
PST, but also address books. I don't think your IMAP trick
would that, but the trick would certainly get me 90% of
the distance I want to go.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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