Shrikant Navelkar wrote: > > 7. Outlook has more import / export features than evolution. > > That's a difficult one! The primary platform for Evo is Linux, and the > import of Linux prevalent formats (i.e. open ones) is fine. What Evo > won't (or can't) do is import proprietary formats. >
But don't you think that that's required ?. When we are encouraging Windows users to move to Linux, import of proprietary formats should be possible. May be development team can think over it. There is no straight forward solution to migrate from Outlook to Evo. Andrew Greig writes: I have just been down this road, and the process is Outlook>Thunderbird (Win) Importer>Evolution (Linux). The reason one cannot use the Linux T'bird is because certain windows dll's are necessary for the import to succeed. Thunderbird does a great job of this, including automatically handling the nested folders in the Inbox. The Contacts go neatly into address book. But there is nothing that I have found to handle the import of the Calendar from Outlook. I tried installing Mozilla Sunbird (Calendar) in the hope that it would have a calendar import feature - unfortunately not. Then before importing the Inbox folders, one needs to make an identical directory structure in Evo, to the original Outlook structure. This is a very time consuming process. It would be nice if a script could do thatin one go if supplied with a list of folder names. (Sorry, over my head stuff). Once the list is generated then each folder is imported on its own from the DocumentsandSettings\ApplicationData\Mozilla \Thunderbird folder in Windows. To speed things up I copied the child folder to my Linux desktop, otherwise for each import I would had to navigate through at least 6 levels. Each folder is imported using "Import a single file". A drag, but it works. Contacts work in one go. If you read the manual along side of what I have written here it should be easier for you. I still need to import a Calendar. My next hope is to get a SynCE synchronisation working with an O2 XDA Jas Jam smartphone, and use that to transfer the Calendar data. At this stage my progress is flaky. Need some help with Raki. Cheers Andrew Greig Melbourne, Australia _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
