[Nottingham] Getting Outlook Express files into Evolution

[Joe Wrigley]

This is a popular faq all over the web. I seem to remember that kmail 
had a pretty good Outlook Express importer. Thunderbird (and Mozilla 
Mail) have import options, but I've never used them. You can then export 
the mailboxes and import into Evolution, I guess.

Joe

Bunter Matthew wrote:

>All,
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>Final dumb question from me today (reason at the end) - and apologies.
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>I have the folders from Outlook Express (Inbox, Sent and some created folders) that I would like to get using in Evolution. I tried importing with no luck. They are .mbx files but the importing program with Evolution only has a choice for Outlook Express 4 which IIRC are .dbx files. 
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>Is there a simple way to get these folders into Evolution?
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>Ditto for the Outlook Express address book into Evolution Contacts. It is a .wab file.
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>The reason for all the dumb questions is that we (me and the Mrs.) are now a Linux only house. What did it take to convince her that she didn't need windows? Mozilla (imported the Favourites from IE - not an easy task), Evolution, and Open Office.
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>Outstanding probs are burning CDs (need to make sure I have all my old files from the Windows partition), getting my Canon S45 to be recognised with gtkam, configuring the firewall and finding the right media players for our radio listening whilst on the web (we are in France where music is pants).
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>Regards,
>
>Matt
> 
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