Subject: Convert Pine emails to Exchange emails (shudder)

From: George Gallen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:29:41 -0400

Is it possible to export the email folder in pine, so it can be imported in
Exchange
WITHOUT losing the date received field? We had a user that has moved to
another
dept and would like to take their emails with them and the new dept isn't
running 
on pine.

Otherwise, I'd just have them forward the emails to their new address, but
then
the received date is lost and makes it hard to reference old emails by date.

George Gallen
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Accounting/Data Division
[email-masked]
ph:856.848.1000 Ext 220

SLACK Incorporated - An innovative information, education and management
company
http://www.slackinc.com

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From: Paul Jakma <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 17:04:54 +0100 (IST)

On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, George Gallen wrote:

> Otherwise, I'd just have them forward the emails to their new address,
> but then the received date is lost and makes it hard to reference old
> emails by date.

would using the Bounce command to send on the emails do the trick?

--paulj

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From: Joe Pollock <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:33:31 -0700 (PDT)

We're using a migration program obtained from Microsoft as an unsupported 
utility. I think it's on either the Exchange resource kit or the Back 
Office kit.

Program is furnished as C-source, and required some massaging to work on 
our system (Ultrix). It migrates folders and the inbox, and puts the 
address book into a form that can be imported by Exchange.

Seems to be fairly complete.  The address book migration only works with
single-level addresses (if an external address is included in another
list, the reference fails). It chokes and dumps core on some non-standard
emails, such as those containing unencoded Japanese text or signatures,
but the problem doesn't occur frequently enough to want to spend more time
fixing it.  YMMV.

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From: Dan Fulbright <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:13:47 -0500 (CDT)

> Is it possible to export the email folder in pine, so it can be
> imported in Exchange WITHOUT losing the date received field? We had a
> user that has moved to another dept and would like to take their
> emails with them and the new dept isn't running on pine.
> 

If your Exchange server allows IMAP (ours does), you can just create the
folders on the Exchange server using IMAP, then open up each folder and
save the messages to the newly created folers.

Dan Fulbright