Converting from Outlook Express to Linux mbox

[kevinguillorytraining]

Thanks for nice howto. My choice in linux always Thunderbird

[Godofgrunts]

An easier way to do this is to use Wine and dbxconv

Instructions are on my blog

As well as the Wine Database entry (maintained by me, so if you have issues let me know).

[martymcc]

I had a customer's OE data and she is converting to Ubuntu, imagine a 70+ year old converting!
Anyway, I had a hell of a time finding a way to convert.
This was a sweet method, couldn't have done it w/o you.
The only 'challenge' I had was finding the kmail program, it didn't install to the applications folder so I had to go to the filesystem/usr/bin and d-click on kmail. Not a big deal.
I went from oe to kmail to thunderbird with this method.
Sincerely,
Dave

That comment about 70+ year olds might be objectionable age stereotyping. I'm 78 and converting from Windows to Mac OS X and Ubuntu at the same time, and I'm doing it myself, not as anyone's customer. My main computer runs Windows XP Home, with mail in Pegasus Mail, and I'm already sending and receiving mail on the Mac and I've migrated some, but not yet all, of my mailboxes. I use an old ThinkPad running Windows 98 SE to produce a newsletter for a chapter of The Mended Hearts, with mail in Outlook Express, and I haven't even decided which Linux mail client to migrate to, but this thread looks as though it would be very helpful.

[the_warrior]

Thank you for your very useful information....
And thank you for sharing your knowledge...........

[pembertonq]

I just tried yesterday, and kmail now natively has the ability to read Outlook Express. However, I couldn't find the method to save to mbox.

[oldfred]

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