Need help reading ms.pst file.

[Ed Greshko]

Michael Wiktowy wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Michael P Angell <4magnell at ruraltel.net> wrote:
>>  Michael--
>>
>>  Before I completely wiped MS from the hd0 I saved contacts.pst but
>> unfortunately cannot import the file into evolution. My google foo is
>> still weak due to years of MS, it appears I need to run MS and convert
>> the file into another format. Anyway to get the information out of the
>> file without installing MS?
> 
> I think Mozilla Thunderbird can import Outlook stuff ... but that
> might only be when it is installed on Windows though. Worth a try.

Think again...  :-)

The import feature of thunderbird will import from ldif files, tab delimited
files, or comma separated files.  Not directly from pst files.  You would
have had to previously exported the pst file into csv or tab separated formates.