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I'm in the process of trying to move my eMail stores from Outlook Express and Eudora in Windows to Thunderbird. The webmail sites ain't working anymore 
Eudora is easy, as its stored in a widely-used format. Thunderbird doesn't seem to have any problems reading and opening the Outlook eMail stores.
Outlook Express is being a pain in the bum. What I've tried to do thus far is install Thunderbird in Windows and import the eMail store. Then, I took the store and moved it into Linux.
Although thus far I have not been 100% able to prove this, it seems as though the eMail store is not working very well. When I look at the store in Thunderbird that have been imported from Thunrderbird in Windows, some of my eMail folders are there filled with my messages. However, some of my messages are missing in action.
I'm looking to see if anybody has successfully transfered eMail from Outlook Express to Thunderbird in Linux. Any utilities out there to do this for me?
I've looked at this software, but I'm not sure if it's what I'm looking for.
Thanks for any help in advance...
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ygreen
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This is the point where I usually give up  The few times I tried to do anything similar I've always ended up dumping all of my archives into multiple text files and just starting fresh.
The brute force workaround if you can't find a suitable parser is just re-mail everything to another account on a server that you can use as a sandbox queue and then log in using your new client and download them as new. Then just go back to your sandbox and delete the temp account and your all done. The only discrepency will be your alias on all of the imported mail will be your sandbox's temp user but usually I don't care about that. |
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georwell
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| Can you use IMAP? Put all your old messages back on the server and then copy them off the server using thunderbird. |
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ygreen
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| georwell wrote: | | Can you use IMAP? Put all your old messages back on the server and then copy them off the server using thunderbird. |
Isn't that what I just said?  |
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Aurora
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Oh wow! That's not a bad idea (IMAP).
However, I've never set up an IMAP account before. Do any of you know of a howto that I can read that would teach me how to do this?
Thanks in advance! 
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Naughtyus
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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| I did the same, but I used Mozilla Mail as the transfer agent (*not* Thunderbird), and had no problems. The Linux client now uses Thunderbird with all the origonal e-mails from outlook. |
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slonocode
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| You could import all the outlook express emails into Eudora. Then they will be in a better format for linux. |
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Aurora
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| Posted: Sat May 01, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all for the great suggestions. I will give this a run.
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| ygreen wrote: | | georwell wrote: | | Can you use IMAP? Put all your old messages back on the server and then copy them off the server using thunderbird. |
Isn't that what I just said? |
No, you suggested resending all the messages to another accoutn and downloading them. The problem with that approach is that they end up looking like they were sent from your account, not the original senders. The IMAP solution works best and it is what I use. |
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| deathdruid, getting my back! Thanks! |
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Aurora
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Okay, complete success. 
I'm going to make a short how-to so hopefully others with this need can transfer the files over...
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