Re: [h-e-w] Re: migrating Outlook Express to gnus

[Raymond Zeitler]

Just a quick note to say that Outlook and Outlook Express are two different
things.  Outlook is mostly an Exchange Server Client, especially when in
Corporate/Workgroup Mode (although it also has other services such as
Internet Mail).  

Outlook Express OTOH, is the mail client and newsreader that comes with
Internet Explorer, and it's rarely used with Exchange. 

BTW, the preferred behavior for an Exchange Mail Client is for it to leave
messages on the server.

 -----Original Message-----
To: "Michael R. Wolf" <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] migrating Outlook Express to gnus
From: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
Date: 02 Dec 2001 19:32:50 +0000

"Michael R. Wolf" <address@hidden> writes:

> I've just gotten gnus to work enough that I'm ready to make a
> migration.  Pointers please for the following information.
> 
> -- message migration

Configure the Exchange server to allow IMAP.
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To: address@hidden
Reply-to: address@hidden
Organization: Church of GNU Emacs
From: Christoph Conrad <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 12:01:01 +0100
Subject: [h-e-w] Re: migrating Outlook Express to gnus

<http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html>

Maybe that helps.


To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Re: migrating Outlook Express to gnus
From: "Michael R. Wolf" <address@hidden>
Date: 03 Dec 2001 09:31:08 -0500


Christoph Conrad <address@hidden> writes:
> <http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html>

Thanks.  I did a little pokin' around.  Here's what I found in case
it's useful to others.

The referenced page specifically says that it will not do "Outlook
Express".  But it *will* do "Outlook".  Don't you love Microsoft?
They use different format files for different programs - reasonable.
But they name the different programs similarly - breeding confusion.
And they only convert from one to the other -- mafioso-like, keeping
it in the family.

There were some links from the mentioned page to a set of  more
general conversion routines.  Here's the link.  It's *much* more than
I could use (i.e. MacOS, pine, elm, Eudora, cc:Mail).

http://www.emailman.com/conversion/index.html#mboxwin

Enjoy,
Michael