Outlook and IE Imports to Kubuntu / Ubuntu

[James Gray]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 05:25 am, Raymond wrote:
> What is required to export Outlook address book messages and messages along
> with IE bookmarks for subsequent import to Kubuntu and/or Ubuntu ?
>
> Major concern for possible Microsoft migration.

Outlook address books can be exported to a CSV or Tab-delimited file.  Both 
can be imported to most mail clients under Linux.

Outlook mail is always a problem unless you have access to an IMAP server.  If 
you have an IMAP server available, upload all local mail+folders to the IMAP 
machine, then import again to a Linux mail client.  MS-Exchange has the 
ability to accept connections via IMAP, but the protocol needs to be enabled 
- check with your administrator.

IE can export its bookmarks to HTML (or it used to able to, 3 years ago when I 
used it).  If more recent versions don't export bookmarks, simply install 
Firefox on Windows, and let it import your IE bookmarks etc.  Once in 
Firefox, they are *exactly* the same format as Firefox-on-Linux and can be 
copied straight over (via pen-drive, floppy, carrier-pigeon; anything).  
Secondly, most other browsers under Linux can import Firefox/Mozilla 
bookmarks, (Konqueror, Opera, etc).  Firefox bookmarks are just a HTML file.

The fly in the ointment will be the e-mail transfer from Outlook.  If you're 
already using an exchange server, just connect your Linux IMAP client to the 
Exchange server and go - all your mail should be there.  I believe there was 
a project at one time to read Outlook's "PST" files (local machine mail 
storage under Outlook), but I never followed it up.  YMMV.

Good luck.

James
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