Exporting messages from a PST file

[nick4soup]

Hi,

I have a need to export several hundred mail messages currently in a
..PST file to any sensible text format that I can move to a linux
machine.

There is no need to operate the result on any email program, but I am
doing this to archive the messages, so I can read them if I need to.

I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (11.5608.5606) in a corporate
setting, on Windows 2000.

Last time I did this, I chose "Tab separated values (DOS)". The
trouble with this is that I only get Subject, Body:, From:, To:, CC:,
BCC:, and the totally irrelevant fields of Billing Information,
Categories, Importance, Mileage, and Sensitivity.

There are no dates or headers.

The Map Custom Fields button (in the wizard) does not allow you to map
the date.

Does anyone have suggestions for a unix readable format that includes
the DATE of the message?

Nick Bishop

 

[Gordon]

(e-mail address removed) wrote:
|| Hi,
||
|| I have a need to export several hundred mail messages currently in a
|| .PST file to any sensible text format that I can move to a linux
|| machine.
||
|| There is no need to operate the result on any email program, but I am
|| doing this to archive the messages, so I can read them if I need to.
||
|| I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (11.5608.5606) in a corporate
|| setting, on Windows 2000.
||
|| Last time I did this, I chose "Tab separated values (DOS)". The
|| trouble with this is that I only get Subject, Body:, From:, To:, CC:,
|| BCC:, and the totally irrelevant fields of Billing Information,
|| Categories, Importance, Mileage, and Sensitivity.
||
|| There are no dates or headers.
||
|| The Map Custom Fields button (in the wizard) does not allow you to
|| map the date.
||
|| Does anyone have suggestions for a unix readable format that includes
|| the DATE of the message?
||

get Mozilla Thunderbird and import in that. TBird uses Unix MBox text mail
boxes.