wine and outlook

[Matthew Flaschen]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> Has anyone tried using Outlook under Wine?
> 
> Why am I asking - a person has a huge outlook.pst file and we are trying 
> to move her to Kubuntu Kmail. Instead of setting up a new account in 
> Thunderbird (windows) as she is already using that too and then import 
> from Outlook and then move to Kubuntu and import to Kmail...

Why not just use Thunderbird under Kubuntu?  Then, only one import.

 I thought a
> workaround for her to have "historical data" could be Outlook under Wine.

The place to check for Wine app compatibility is always AppDB.  In this
case, the page
(http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=34)
indicates none of the versions of Outlook run particularly well (a
Microsoft product use secret Windows APIs, never!).  Still, you can
always try for yourself.

Matt Flaschen