Offtopic: Export emails from Outlook Express

[Ed Wilts, RHCE]

On 12/18/2004 02:06 PM, Bob Hartung wrote:
> Okay I admit defeat.

Never!  You're only *temporarily* stumped.

> I have finally talked my wife into trying Fedora. I have managed to get 
> her address boot successfully transfered.  Even after reading many, many 
> postings re: export mail from Outlook Express, I still cannot get it 
> into a format than I can read in.
> 
> Can someone give me a link to a method, freeware etc. that will let me 
> export form OE and then move the files to Linux for importation?

My approach would be to put all the messages on an imap server (your 
Fedora system will work!).  Then simply drag & drop from the OE local 
mail spool to the IMAP server.  Fire up your Thunderbird client (or 
whatever), point it at your IMAP server, and there are your messages.

The address book was the hard part - congratulations!

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Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
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