Subject: Can I import from my outlook express?

From: David Sudjiman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:58:48 +0700 (WIT)

Hi,

I just get my laptop back for I haven't use it for 2 months. Back in those
time, I was using my outlook express to get my email. Can I have those
downloaded email imported to my pine?

thx
.dave

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From: Allen Ziegenfus <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 08:47:30 -0500 (EST)

Hello,

The Outlook Express .MBX files should be compatible with Pine's mbox
format. I tried this before and just copied some .MBX files to my
mail directory and Pine found them no problem. I did notice that
some control characters seemed to have popped up in some fields, but
that was the only problem.

Allen

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, David Sudjiman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just get my laptop back for I haven't use it for 2 months. Back in
> those time, I was using my outlook express to get my email. Can I have
> those downloaded email imported to my pine?
>
> thx
> .dave

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From: "Bill Kearney" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:01:54 -0500

Another, and perhaps safer, idea would be to use an IMAP server as a moving
point.

Connect to the IMAP server via Outlook Express.
Create a folder.  More if needed.
Copy the messages from the local mailbox folder(s) to the new folder(s).

Connect to the IMAP server via Pine.
Create local folder.  More if needed.
Move the messages from the IMAP folder(s) to the local folder(s).

Note I said "copy" the first time.  If something goes wrong you'd at least still
have the messages safely stored in the local Outlook Express folders.  If you're
satisfied that things have worked properly you can always go back and delete
them later.

I use an Exchange server via IMAP from OE, Outlook, Pine and even some
programmed code.  It works pretty well and has been very reliable.  I've
likewise used a uw-imap server for similar purposes and also had great success.

Even if you have no need of an IMAP server forever, setting one up for moving
messages is easy enough.  It's certainly safer that playing "guessing games"
with trying to read mailbox files directly.

-Bill Kearney