Re: Converting Evo files to Outlook

Thanks Guenther,

I think I can get around the Contacts problem by passing it through a
Palm Pilot, Evo>Pilot Pilot >Lookout.

I will follow up on the mbox deal.

On your first paragraph, thanks for your good humour, I do, however,
want to leave them with something they can understand as I am Robinson
Crusoe in that place, everything else in that business is in enemy
hands.

Andrew


On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 12:05, guenther wrote:
> > I may be shortly leaving my current employment and since I have been
> > working with Evo under Mandrake for the past 2.5 years I will need to
> > leave my employer with records in a format they can follow eg Outlook.
> > All of my business documents have been generated in OpenOffice.org and
> > saved as pdf's, so it it is only the mail folders and contacts that need
> > to be converted.  I could always leave them with my IBM notebook, but I
> > am not keen on that idea.
> > 
> > So how do I convert the Evo stuff to Outlook stuff , please?
> 
> Please ask Micros~1 about this. You wouldn't even dare to ask them how
> to migrate to another system, would you? ;)
> 
> 
> Seriously, I dunno. The question is, which Mail and Contacts formats
> Outlook understands. If it is limited (even for importing) to its own
> formats, you've lost the game. An IMAP server will be the solution for
> mails, though.
> 
> Evolution does support all common mail formats and uses mbox format by
> default. Most eMail clients can import that widespread format. Regarding
> Contacts Evolution can export them to vCard, which is a common format
> here.
> 
> 
> If Outlook does not support any widespread standard for importing (mbox,
> maildir, ...) then it is an Outlook bug. Please complain to them.
> 
> ...guenther
> 

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