[pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?

[Sorin Srbu]

I would appreciate if you could send me those scripts!

Thx.

BW,

Sorin

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lists@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
> [mailto:lists@blueprintsoftwareworks.com]On Behalf Of=20
> Andrew Douglas
> Pitonyak
> Sent: den 9 mars 2005 06:21
> To: pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
> Subject: [pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?
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> Sorin Srbu wrote:
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> >On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:56:28 -0800, Don Buska wrote:
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> >>I too would be interested in such a conversion.  I have=20
> many-many years
> >>worth of PM Mail I'd love to convert over.  I still use=20
> PMMAIL for my
> >>private accounts on both OS/2 and W2K.  Like Sorin we=20
> have recently started
> >>migrating the servers here at work to WIN2003 Servers. =20
> No NetBeui on these
> >>babies and since OS/2 has lagged so far behind in the=20
> networking arena I
> >>will no longer be able to use it here at work much,=20
> except for standalone
> >>and general internet stuff.
> >>   =20
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> >
> >Just spoke to the former unix-admin at our dept, and we discussed
> >how a migration may be doable:
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> >As you might know, all mails in Pmm are single messages in clear
> >text. We were discussing whether all those single files=20
> couldn't be
> >concatenated into a big single file (one file per=20
> mailfolder), then
> >renamed to mailbox.mbx, and in import that file into Outlook. We
> >thought tjhis might definetly work, but needs testing on
> >non-critical mails first.
> >
> >I'll try this soon, and get back to this list.
> >
> >If there aren't any spcial tools for this out there, the aboe way
> >may be worth trying.
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> >HTH.
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> I have a few tools and I do not remember which I used for what....
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> I have a C++ program written by John L. Swartzentruber,=20
> complete with=20
> source code. I think that John made changes after I=20
> received source code=20
> from him....
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> I have a CMD program written by D C Saville that can move=20
> an address=20
> book. This did not work for me, so I wrote a PERL script that did!
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> I have another set of PERL scripts that I did not bother=20
> to unzip to see=20
> who made them, but they are marked to help with conversion....
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> I think that I simply compiled John's code and then used=20
> his code to=20
> generate the single mbx file as you say. I performed more=20
> manual work to=20
> generate csv files from my address books, which I then=20
> imported into=20
> Thunderbird.
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> I can send what ever I have if you desire.
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> Andrew Pitonyak
> andrew@pitonyak.org
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