[pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?

[Sorin Srbu]

On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 04:56:28 -0800, Don Buska wrote:

>I too would be interested in such a conversion.  I have many-many years
>worth of PM Mail I'd love to convert over.  I still use PMMAIL for my
>private accounts on both OS/2 and W2K.  Like Sorin we have recently started
>migrating the servers here at work to WIN2003 Servers.  No NetBeui on these
>babies and since OS/2 has lagged so far behind in the networking arena I
>will no longer be able to use it here at work much, except for standalone
>and general internet stuff.

Just spoke to the former unix-admin at our dept, and we discussed
how a migration may be doable:

As you might know, all mails in Pmm are single messages in clear
text. We were discussing whether all those single files couldn't be
concatenated into a big single file (one file per 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.

HTH.

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Sorin Srbu [mailto:Sorin.Srbu@orgfarm.uu.se]
>>Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:17 AM
>>To: PMMail Mailing List
>>Subject: [pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?
>>
>>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm sorry to say this, but I can't linger on with PMMail anymore.
>>Time has finally run away from it...
>>
>>The new reommended mailer at our department is currently Eudora,
>>but will be substituted to Outlook (OL) in a really near future. 
>>
>>The problem however, is that I can't find a way to export all my
>>years worth of mail from PMM to something OL can understand.
>>
>>Has any of you tried this, and can shed some light on the issue?
>>
>>Any help, hints, pointers and such are welcome.


BW,

Sorin

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