(I guess this is about half on-topic. Apologies for the other half.)
I'm helping out a user who would like to migrate from Evolution to Outlook. Which means I'll need a tool that works something like readpst in reverse. Can anyone suggest such a tool, please?
Thanks,
Dan
On 26/11/2008 16:07:06, Dan Hatton wrote:
(I guess this is about half on-topic. Apologies for the other half.)
I'm helping out a user who would like to migrate from Evolution to Outlook. Which means I'll need a tool that works something like readpst in reverse. Can anyone suggest such a tool, please?
How about an IMAP server? Evolution can copy from it's own native format to the IMAP server and then outlook could pull the mail from the IMAP server and write it to PST.
Steve.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Steve Fosdick wrote:
How about an IMAP server? Evolution can copy from it's own native format to the IMAP server and then outlook could pull the mail from the IMAP server and write it to PST.
Thanks Steve and Brett, that worked a treat for transferring the mail folders. But Evolution doesn't seem keen to copy its Contacts to the IMAP server. Any clues?
On 27 Nov 12:57, Dan Hatton wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Steve Fosdick wrote:
How about an IMAP server? Evolution can copy from it's own native format to the IMAP server and then outlook could pull the mail from the IMAP server and write it to PST.
Thanks Steve and Brett, that worked a treat for transferring the mail folders. But Evolution doesn't seem keen to copy its Contacts to the IMAP server. Any clues?
*AH* - contacts are a whole different ball game - it might be that you can export them from evolution and import in to lookout - but I've not done that step before. It might also be possible to set up an LDAP server for the contacts, and then use that to sync the two (but LDAP is a royal PITA).
Ah ha - On contacts, right click on the contacts list thingummy in the left, and save as vcard - you should then be able to import that file in to lookout.
Hope that helps,
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Brett Parker wrote:
Ah ha - On contacts, right click on the contacts list thingummy in the left, and save as vcard - you should then be able to import that file in to lookout.
Almost. Except that Evolution exports all the contacts to a single vcard file, and OL will only import the first contact from any given vcard file. To bridge the gap, I found a GPL'd Perl script called vcf-split on the web.
On 26 Nov 16:07, Dan Hatton wrote:
(I guess this is about half on-topic. Apologies for the other half.)
I'm helping out a user who would like to migrate from Evolution to Outlook. Which means I'll need a tool that works something like readpst in reverse. Can anyone suggest such a tool, please?
Just use an IMAP server, copy the mails from Evolution -> the imap server, then connect with Lookout and get the mail from the imap server.
Simple, effective, cheap!
(Of course - anyone that's wanting to use Outlook for e-mail is clearly clinically insane and you should refer them to a psychiatrist, but that's beside the point)
Cheers,
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Dan Hatton -
Steve Fosdick