On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 02:59:27AM -0400, steev wrote: | On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 11:33:13PM -0700, Jeff wrote: | <snip> | > I think you're in for a load of work on this task. An idea I have is | > if you have an IMAP server available that you can move all the mail | > onto with the Windows mail client, you could then access the IMAP | > folders with Mutt or fetchmail and pull them into your mbox/maildir | > folders. | | so, uhh, how do i setup an IMAP server?
# apt-get install courier-imap
Or choose a different one if you prefer, courier-imap used the
maildir format (which I recommend) and defaults to storing all folders
in ~/Maildir (like qmail does).
| and won't the mails show up as from me?
No. Try copying a message from one folder to another now. That's a
different operation from sending a message.
| the thing i'm thinking *might* work would be to export the mails,
| but then it will be a matter of importing the mails into the
| folders, as some of the mails are from mailing lists that i am still
| on, from before i started using linux, but continue to receive these
| mailing lists...
If you can get the folders into a standard (non-proprietary) format
then the rest is a piece of cake. Almost all UNIX mail clients use
one or more of the standard formats rather than invent their own
(incompatible) proprietary format.
| I believe that Outlook offers the ability to export to text, but uhh,
| i'm not sure how well it would work, since, well, last time i checked my
| outlook's .pst file, it was around 250MB... so perhaps I should just
| forget about keepin those emails...
Try it anyways. What does the export file look like? Is it mbox? If
it is then you're all set. Performance of a 250MB mbox folder will
really suck, but once you've got an mbox there are tools you can use
to split it up in various ways.
HTH,
-D
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