[ubuntu-uk] Outlook pst to evolution

davmor2 davmor2 at davmor2.co.uk
Tue Nov 11 17:26:55 GMT 2008




On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:49:20 +0000, Michael Holloway
<michael at thedarkwinter.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am in charge of IT in a small company; and have always allowed users
> free choice of OS - which of course has resulted in 95% XP/VISTA and a
> couple of Macs, and 0 Linux (outside IT).
> 
> Recently (after much moaning about how much their outlook crashes etc) a
> couple of people have shown interest in *trying* Ubuntu. I'm quite happy
> to Dual boot their machines as application wise: I think Ubuntu will
> cover all of there needs.
> 
> However; we deal with a lot of email in this company, and some users'
> archive.pst files are 5GB+, as well as a couple of gigs on the Exchange
> servers (outsourced). Googling a way to import this has only resulted in
> importing into mozilla in windows (to mbox), then copying the files
> across and importing into Evolution. - Also with warnings about folder
> trees and folder names (which is a big problem in our case, no detail
> necessary). The other thing I found is a 5 year old project "Outport"
> which I doubt we be of any use.
> 
> Have any of you had experience with this process? Or know of a good way
> to do it (without imap-ing in 2 directions). Additionally, for heavy MS
> Office users, any warnings? I use OO happily, but I barely even change
> font!
> 
If your have a spare machine you can try it on.  Try simply using
migration-assistant it picks up outlook and should automatically import the
settings to evolution. Hope it helps :)
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