On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 01:22:37PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 1999 at 12:04:17PM -0500, David DeSimone thus spoke:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 5) Can one convert a .PST file to unix-like(text) format ?
> >
> > What's a .PST file?
>
> Microsoft Outlook's P.O.S. excuse for a folder format. And I'm -guessing-
> the answer is no, since .PST files contain not only mail messages, but all
> of the information for Outlook, including contacts, address books, etc, to
> my knowledge. I could be wrong, but I though it had the whole lot
> included. It's also stored in non-text format. Even the mail messages are
> encoded in binary for some reason...using gnu grep for dos I could not find
> a line in my .pst that had my email address at all.
>
> I'd give this up as a lost cause.
You can't do it directly, but...
Outlook can export it's messages to Netscape (or netscape can import
Outlook's messages, I don't remember which one...). Netscape's mail folder
is readable for mutt.
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