5/1 Alright, I have lots of personal mail (~5000 msgs) currently in
Outlook Express (I know, big mistake, but I started using it a long
while ago, and now here I am)... I would like to backup/archive
these. I'm thinking the best format to store mail like this is the
unix mbox format? Any other suggestions? Is there some way to
convert all my outlook express mail (w/ folders, sub-folders, etc)
to this format? thanks alot.
\_ http://mbx2mbox.sourceforge.net might be good enough for you.
i found this by typing the following in googlsky:
"outlook express" mbox unix
"outlook express" mbox unix [formatd was here instead of deleted
because you provided a decent answer]
\_ mbox is ok if you never want to look at it again. gzip and forget.
\_ Why gzip when you can use philcompress?
\_ Nunez knows his shit, man.
\_ what if I do want to look at it again?
\_ I'm an mh user and I like the way mh folders and the programs
that go with mh work so I'm going to say convert to that. You
can later tar and compress the whole thing if you get bored of
it. You can easily search and re-arrange files by subject,
date, sender, recipient, and other searches, etc, etc, etc.
It's powerful but I'm sure the pine users would tell you to
do something else. ;-)
\_ Mozilla uses mbox format. It would be very easy to set up
mozilla (or thunderbird) as your mail program and the old mail
as a local mail folder.
\_ but mbox format sucks.
\_ No it doesn't. Or do you want to elaborate?
\_ locking, single file corruption, searching, etc
\_ I'm in the same boat, but my old mail is in Lotus Notes format.
Suggestions?
\_ Probably can be converted to exchange and then converted to
outlook express and then to mbox. Good luck!
\_ Save all messages to a certain date in a PST file and burn it. |