[oclug]Changing office workstations from M$ to Linux

Ian Wormsbecker i.wormsbecker at uleth.ca
Wed Jan 22 14:04:28 EST 2003


On January 22, 2003 02:01 pm, Shawn Barnes wrote:
> I'm currently moving my office's workstations to Mandrake 8.2.
>
> Having a problem with mail/address import.  Most of my users are/were
> using outlook express 6.  Evolution/ximian can import .mbx files
> (outlook express 4) not .dbx files (oultook express 6).
>
> Does anyone know how to deal with this?  Is there a plug in for
> evolution or a .dbx to .mbx converter.
>

I seem to recall there being a way to move the emails to an imap server, then 
downloading from the imap server.

I believe there are some instructions here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html

Ian



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