[pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak]

I will send the scripts directly, off list.....
Sorin Srbu wrote:

>I would appreciate if you could send me those scripts!
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>Thx.
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>BW,
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>Sorin
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: lists@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
>>[mailto:lists@blueprintsoftwareworks.com]On Behalf Of 
>>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 
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>>many-many years
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>>>>worth of PM Mail I'd love to convert over.  I still use 
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>>PMMAIL for my
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>>>>private accounts on both OS/2 and W2K.  Like Sorin we 
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>>have recently started
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>>>>migrating the servers here at work to WIN2003 Servers.  
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>>No NetBeui on these
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>>>>babies and since OS/2 has lagged so far behind in the 
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>>networking arena I
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>>>>will no longer be able to use it here at work much, 
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>>except for standalone
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>>>>and general internet stuff.
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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 
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>>couldn't be
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>>>concatenated into a big single file (one file per 
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>>mailfolder), then
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>>>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.
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>>>I'll try this soon, and get back to this list.
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>>>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, 
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>>source code. I think that John made changes after I 
>>received source code 
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>>I have a CMD program written by D C Saville that can move 
>>an address 
>>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 
>>to unzip to see 
>>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 
>>his code to 
>>generate the single mbx file as you say. I performed more 
>>manual work to 
>>generate csv files from my address books, which I then 
>>imported into 
>>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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