Answered part 1 myself. If anyone wants to know, here's what I did. An easier way would be nice...
First, KMail is a strange beast. It's fully connected neither with Linux nor with Windows. It can't import Outlook Express 6 properly, and makes a right dog's breakfast of what it does import. But most strangely it can't import from Netscape/Mozilla/Thunderbird either. So I've abandoned it in favour of Thunderbird, which is nearly as smooth as OE and seems do most things quite well. Oddly enough, though, it has no Export feature so how much trouble I'm storing up for the future I can't tell.
Back to the transfer. The first thing was to transfer the address book. The only way I found to do that was using a CSV file. This took ten minutes or so of fiddling with imports and exports at each end but then went smoothly enough.
For the messages, I installed Mozilla on Windows and tried to import from OE6. It failed. So I installed Outlook 2000, copied all the mail from OE6 to that then asked Mozilla to import from Outlook. Eventually I had all my messages in Mozilla. However, with no export feature I had to inspect the Windows and Linux folder structures for Mozilla/Thunderbird and copy the .sbd, .msf and folders (plain text files, mostly) across the network. So now here they are and I'm at last able to relieve Windoze of one more task. Just remains to uninstall Outlook and Mozilla.
-- GT
Graham Trott wrote:
Two questions for the experts:
- Is there a way of getting my Outlook Express Address Book into
Linux for KMail to use? I have a couple of hundred contacts so going via vCards is likely to get painful. Likewise the messages; KMail only understands OE4 so it gets some but not all of them. Is there a route through MS Outlook?
- I'm having difficulty getting Windows to print to my Linux
printer. It appears as the default print device but absolutely nothing happens when I try to print. No error messages, nothing. I have Samba setup pretty well as it came out of the box, with just the domain name changed. Any suggestions?
-- GT