Wine (Was Budget-priced Windows license)

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 28 May 2022 10:43:27 -0400, Jon LaBadie <ubu at labadie.us> wrote:

>>And I need MSOffice since my email archive is on Outlook from 1996 forward and
>>it cannot be exported to anything readable by any other mail client. :-(
>>
>I've not had the need to convert, but may for my wife's email.
>
>Have you found the several ".pst" file format converters unsuitable?
>
>-- 
>Jon H. LaBadie

Warning:
*** This may go off-topic, but since you asked: ***

When I switched to the current lapttop in 2019 and therefore Windows10 it was
nop longer possible to install Outlook 2003, which I had been using so far.
So I bought the standalone version of MSOffice2019 including Outlook2019.

Then I imported my emails to Outlook2019 from the older formatted PST files used
on the previous laptop.

This was a pretty long process for my 7 PST files totalling now 14 GB.
They contain messages dating back to 1996 and for 4 different mail accounts.

And the message format I used has varied between plaintext, html and Outlook
native RTF format. All are present.
And the messages are moved into a very large folder structure inside the PST
stores for handling different customers, dev projects, cooperation partners and
what have you. This is a big part of the use of Outlook.

Back to your question:
I tried to find a tool or method to do the export to something that could then
be used in for example Thunderbird or some other OpenSource mail client.
Preferentially a store that would be possible to use also on Linux.
And that would presrve the folder structure and the timestamps of all emails.

Is this at all possible?

I looked briefly again today and did not find anything obvious, what is
available is geared towards a much smaller conversion/extraction and targets
sometimes mail stuffed into PDF files....

I probably have around a million or so messages.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden