[SLUG] Converting Outlook Express DBX files to MBOX format

[Paul Teasdale]

On Monday 02 Aug 2004 00:19, Jonathan Worthington wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > The resulting mbox files can be read by many Linux mail clients including
> > Pine, Mutt and Kmail to name but a few.
>
> ...Kmail can import Outlook Express files out of the box.  I can't confirm
> that as I haven't tried yet, or I don't know how well it does it, but I've
> read that it is capable of doing this.
>

Hi Jonathan,

This is the very first import filter I tried as I use mainly KMail and it did 
work well on small DBX files with only a few messages. BUT... on large DBX 
with 100's of messages it dropped e-mail I'm afraid and left me at a point 
where I did not trust it. I had one particlar DBX file (Giles.DBX) that 
contains almost 700 e-mails many with attachments. KmailCVT failed miserably 
here with only 400 being correctly imported (with no sign of the others). 
This happened on other DBX files too but not in such large quantaties.

Kind regards,

Paul.

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