Windows migration tool?

Jerome Gotangco jgotangco at gmail.com
Thu Jul 14 21:08:00 CDT 2005


> I was thinking that this would be a nice idea for new users. It could
> automount the Windows partition, search for
> Firefox/IE/Thunderbird/Outlook/Outlook Express, find the mailboxes and
> settings and copy them over, using the convertors that the Linux
> equivalent programs have (Firefox --> Firefox would be very simple --
> just copy the directory over!).

Thunderbird is a gimme for migration since it uses MBOX so it wouldn't
be that much of a problem to move it to Thunderbird in ubuntu. Not so
sure about Evolution, although it uses the same format.

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Cheers!

Jerome G.



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