[pmmail-list] Exporting fromm PMM to Outlook?

[Kenn Yuill]

Sorin Srbu wrote as follows on 03/08/05 08:28 AM:

>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 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.
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>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.
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>>>-----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.
>>>      
>>>
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>BW,
>
>Sorin
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Sorin & Don, as you may recollect, there are 2 tools for conversion from 
PMM to Mozilla or Thunderbird but run on OS/2; namely pmm2tb & pmm2moz.  
I believe these programs are on Hobbes as zipped archives.  Perhaps the 
author(s) would be willing to compile a version for Windows if there is 
sufficient demand and/or incentives, :-) .  Let me know if you are 
interested and cannot find these 2 programs and I can send each of you a 
copy.


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