Not likely.. The PST file format that libpst can read is limited to 2GB. -ellie
On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 12:17 -0400, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ilo Lorusso wrote: > > > [...] > > I know the users also have large OUT LOOK pst files 4.5GIGs and wondering if > > I could also intergrate that into IMAP? > > It can be done, but it is a nightmare. For post-2003(?) Outlook .PST's, > the only sensible, non-commercial path I could find was through > Thunderbird's import. Uploading directly to the server (Even if you ran a > local server!) was horrendously, painstakingly slow, and rendered the > Outlook user's computer unusable for that time. > > (If you're feeling lucky, Google libpst. Maybe your Outlook is old > enough that it supports the format.) > > Via Thunderbird: > > 1. Open all the .PST's you want to convert in Outlook, and, if possible, > make sure those were the only .PST's open. > > 2. Be sure to 'compact'/'compress' each one, to get rid of deleted > messages (excluding those in 'Deleted Items'. Uggh.). > > 3. Make sure Outlook is completely closed, and not accessing any .PST's. > > 4. Open Thunderbird. > > 5. Import mail from Outlook. > > This gets you mbox files with the same hierarchy that you had in Outlook. > I then wrote some Perl scripts to deal with these. In my case, I was > combining several users' folders into a single shared hierarchy. Maybe you > can run some mbox2maildir program and be done with it. > > Caveats: > > - If possible, change the location of Thunderbird's profile directory to a > short path name. (e.g. C:\convert) The default path to local folders: > C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application > Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\(random string)\Mail\Local Folders > means that approximately 100 of your 255-character limit for filenames are > chewed up. > > - Thunderbird will mangle folder names that contain 'odd' characters. I > never figured out what characters caused trouble, but the following were > definitely OK: [A-Za-z0-9. ] > (I found the odd foldernames running: > find (dirname) -type d | perl -lnwe 'print if /[\da-f]{8}/' > They always ended in a string of hexadecimal digits.) > > - Thunderbird doesn't seem to like non-Latin-1 headers. (I didn't find > this out until someone noticed it a while after the conversion.) This > means QP-encoded headers. (In my case, ISO-2022-JP.) > > Best of luck. I don't envy your task. :-) > > -- Ben -- Elizabeth Greene IT Manager, GlobalOptions FSIU Division 615-665-5555 (Office) 615-456-9813 (Mobile)