[NTLUG:Discuss] Outlook to Linux migration

[David]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 04:16:59PM -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> > Do it this way... If your Mail server supports IMAP just move all the
> > messages out to the server...
> 
> Hmmm....guess I wasn't clear about "I've got years of emails...."  I think
> my last backup was about 20GB+.....while I like the novelty of the approach,
> I don't think it's gonna work for this one.

I second the IMAP approach to conversion.  And you'll be surprised
about the space issues.  Outlook's file layout is so wasteful of space
that I'd believe Microsoft secretly owns Seagate and Western Digital.
When I've tried this for people at my office, the resulting IMAP-built
mbox files are always quite a bit smaller than the Outlook PST files
they started with.

-- 
David Hayes
david at hayes-family.org