hey.. ive been wanting to move to linux completely... and the only thing holding me back is all my email in outlook.. is there anyway to port these to red hat?

thanks,
kunal

If you know somewhere that has IMAP mail access, get a temp account if you dont already have one.. configure it in Outlook.. once configured.. make some folders and or copy your folder structure into the IMAP mail store (click and drag)

your information is now on the IMAP server.

get on linux, get a good IMAP reader and download it.. you're all set.

Originally posted by anantatman
If you know somewhere that has IMAP mail access, get a temp account if you dont already have one.. configure it in Outlook.. once configured.. make some folders and or copy your folder structure into the IMAP mail store (click and drag)

your information is now on the IMAP server.

get on linux, get a good IMAP reader and download it.. you're all set.


would be easy, but I have over 50mb of emails :) I dont think anyone would allow this.. Plus, it would be easier if I could export them to linux...

hehe if someone offers IMAP, they should usually give at least that much to each domain. but.. as far as exporting goes, i dont know if there are some programs.. check out http://www.freshmeat.net for some free programs


what will your app be in linux? look for a pst to whatever converter within that app

The .pst file is a proprietary extension. However, I use Ximian Evolution (much like outlook in linux) for email and I recall reading an article that said you should do the following:
Download Netscape Communicator 6.x, import messages to that email client. Then export to a more standardized file format. Then you can import it in linux.
Hope this helps

macos X.. hehe all the comforts of unix (apache , mysql, etc.. etc.. )
with a bad a$$ UI, and all the graphics programs needed to do webdev.

?

Firstly, you would currently have to buy a mac (i think) which costs much more. I agree with the kick ass ui, but I wonder, can you get tired of it?

There's a program out there called out2unix that should work to do what you want, if I remember correctly.

Originally posted by kmh
There's a program out there called out2unix that should work to do what you want, if I remember correctly.

perfect. :)

http://developer.berlios.de/project/?group_id=136

Originally posted by agiledesigns
Firstly, you would currently have to buy a mac (i think) which costs much more. I agree with the kick ass ui, but I wonder, can you get tired of it?

you can get a mac g4 for 800 bucks at a good computer refurb store.. u cant get tired of this ui.. it just becomes natural after a while.. what tires me is KDE/Gnome/CDE . given they've all come a long way, they still have a long ways to go.. Ximian Gnome is getting just a little better... thankgod that company Easel went out of business and they took over the nautilus explorer.