Hi, A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird? Cheers, Niki
Have you tried the Thunderbird import tool?? It has a Outlook toggle and should handle the file.. It is under the tools drop down, and is called Import... john plemons Niki Kovacs wrote:> Hi, > > A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a > Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed > recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean > and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% > GNU/Linux :oD > > I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in > some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is > there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird? > > Cheers, > > Niki > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:> A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a > Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed recursively > Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean and 5) installed > CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% GNU/Linux :oD > > I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in some > obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is there > any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird?Taking a different approach than others... Load them back into Outlook Express on a Windows box. Open a gmail account and enable it for IMAP access. Configure Outlook Express for gmail/IMAP and copy the messages to gmail folders. Configure T-Bird on CentOS for gmail/IMAP and copy from gmail to Local Folders. Hopefully you don't have several Gigs of messages. If you already have an IMAP enabled mail account somewhere else, you could use that too. -- Jeff
Niki Kovacs wrote:> Hi, > > A friend's laptop just quit working under Windows XP, so I 1) booted a > Knoppix Live CD 2) configured the thing for my LAN 3) scp'ed > recursively Documents\ and\ Settings/, 4) wiped the hard disk clean > and 5) installed CentOS 5.1. No dual-boot, no prisoners, just 100% > GNU/Linux :oD > > I managed to find the contents of the Outlook Express Mailboxes in > some obscure subdirectory. It's a series of files in .dbx format. Is > there any hope to convert these so I can import them into Thunderbird? > > Cheers, > > NikiAnother alternative comes to mind. Kmail is pretty handy at importing from other clients' formats. Outlook Express is supposedly one of them. If you can get the mail into Kmail, moving it to Thunderbird should be a breeze.