mbox import

[Anthony]

All,

This seems like such a simple question and I am sure it has
been answered 1000 times...but I cant find the answer
anywhere.

I have a bunch of mbox format files that I would like to
import into outlook 2k3. how do I do this? None of the
import selections seem to work.

Thanks
anthony

 

[Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]]

I'm not familiar with mbox files - from what program were these created?

 

[Anthony]

mbox is popular on *nix mail servers/clients. qmail,
sendmail, etc can all spool messages into mbox files. They
are just flat text files.

http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html

Thanks
Anthony

-----Original Message-----
I'm not familiar with mbox files - from what program were these created?

--
PATRICK REED [Outlook - MVP]~~~~~~
-Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
-Have you checked http://www.slipstick.com?
-Please post your Outlook version!

All,

This seems like such a simple question and I am sure it has
been answered 1000 times...but I cant find the answer
anywhere.

I have a bunch of mbox format files that I would like to
import into outlook 2k3. how do I do this? None of the
import selections seem to work.

Thanks
anthony

.

 

[Patrick Reed [MVP - Outlook]]

Oy - yeah, I should have known that.

I don't have what I need available to me right now to test this, but you
should be able to import the mbox files into Netscape mail. From Netscape,
you can import into Outlook Express, which in turn can import into Outlook.
Unless you can get the mbox file(s) into a comma separated values format,
there isn't a direct way to go right from mbox into Outlook, as far as I
know.

--
PATRICK REED [Outlook - MVP]~~~~~~
-Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
-Have you checked http://www.slipstick.com?
-Please post your Outlook version!

mbox is popular on *nix mail servers/clients. qmail,
sendmail, etc can all spool messages into mbox files. They
are just flat text files.

http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html

Thanks
Anthony

-----Original Message-----
I'm not familiar with mbox files - from what program were these created?

--
PATRICK REED [Outlook - MVP]~~~~~~
-Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
-Have you checked http://www.slipstick.com?
-Please post your Outlook version!

All,

This seems like such a simple question and I am sure it has
been answered 1000 times...but I cant find the answer
anywhere.

I have a bunch of mbox format files that I would like to
import into outlook 2k3. how do I do this? None of the
import selections seem to work.

Thanks
anthony

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