Subject: Outlook -> (back to) Pine, possible?

From: Iosif Fettich <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:16:41 +0200 (EET)

As I can name without even taking a breathing pause at least 10 guys that
had the same bad luck at least once, I think it's worth asking. 

TIA for any answer.

I have a _normal_ Unix mail account I use quite happily.

Mostly through a PC (with Windows, of course...) and through a Term
App+Unix Pine.

I need the mail staying on the server, as I occasionally have to see it
from other locations, wherefrom I cannot acces my 'standard' PC.

Trying to see the whatabouts with Outlook Express, at setup time I just
forgot for a second that for such purposes I usually use another (test) 
account. 

The moment I finished the setup, I knew the catastrophy is perfect: all my
mail from the server came down to my PC - and I see no way to put it
back... Some of the messages can of course be deleted without regrets; but
some of them should find their way in the folders they belong into, on the
Unix server. 

Forwarding each message to the standard address to have it back is not a
solution: I'd loose the original "From: " part of the message in what
pine shows when displaying all messages, so it would become even more
painful to decide on each message after that. 

Does anyone know a solution to this? Just putting back into Pine's folder
what Outlook has stolen from it...?

Iosif Fettich
[email-masked]
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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 04:36:50 +0800 (GMT)

> what Outlook has stolen from it...?

You are in trouble since Outlook does not have a "bounce" feature.  It
also does not have the ability to "export" the mailbox in plaintext nor
does it store it in the "standard" way as you would find it on a Unix
platform.

So, you *may* be luck to have a system admin doing "backups" nightly.
You could ask them to restore.

Ed

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From: Noone Special <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 09:18:17 -0500 (EST)

> does it store it in the "standard" way as you would find it on a Unix
Outlook (from Office 97)does have a feature to export the file to a
comma-separated file.
Assuming all the appropriate fields were included in a logical format, you
could conceivably write a program to rebuild a mail spool from that export
file.  I have been unable to confirm this, as the export option on my
Outlook is broken.  If you manage to get the spool file exported, but
can't tell if it is in a viable format, or can't write the program to
convert, or whatever, you can mail it to me (if you want) and I will see
what I can do :)

> You could ask them to restore.
Ya, there's always that option :)

Pat