On 23 June 2010 15:17, Alan Lord (News) <alansli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/06/10 14:56, Andrew Bryant wrote:
> <snip />
> > In order to transfer Outlock Express data (both the emails and the
> > address list) do we need to get the windows system repaired first, or
> > can we copy the relevant folders across and work some magic in Ubuntu?
>
> IIRC when trying to import mail from Outlook to Thunderbird, you needed
> a working Outlook as the mail file is proprietary to MS and Thunderbird
> basically used API calls to outlook to extract the data (please note
> however that recently Microsoft have opened up information on the file
> structure so this might change in the future).
>
> I am not sure if this is the same for Outlook Express.
>
> If you can Windows to boot, install Thunderbird on Windows first, import
> the mail data, then copy the Thunderbird profile over to Ubuntu.
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
> Just to add to the comments, I believe OE Files are actually .IDX files and
are found in C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Local Settings\Application
Data\Identities\{GUID}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
Again not sure how well it imports them, pretty sure Thunderbird can handle
them but not 100%
Andy
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