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On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:25 AM, tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22/05/11 19:56, Simon Waters wrote: >> >> On 22/05/11 19:23, Gordon Henderson wrote: >>> >>> A few google searches suggested simply copying it over from the XP box >>> "as is" - which is what I did - I used the file manager to copy the >>> entire Thunderbird profile directory from the XP side to the >>> .thunderbird directory - and it worked! No exporting accounts, >>> addresses, themes, settings, etc. >> >> I meant for Outlook and many other clients the easy route is into >> Thunderbird on Windows, and then over to Thunderbird on GNU/Linux. >> >> The Outlook export uses the API, they use to include it in the GNU/Linux >> version of Thunderbird even though it wouldn't work without the relevant >> Microsoft DLLs for accessing the Outlook mail store. >> > Does this mean Outlook (and Outlook Express) can be transferred to > Thunderbird more or less seamlessly? > Tom te tom te tom "seamless" is subjective. I have moved people from Outlook & Outlook Express over to Thunderbird fairly well by using an IMAP server in the middle. I added the IMAP server to the Outlook/OE instance, moved all the mail over manually, then added the IMAP to the Thunderbird instance. Was a pain but seemed to work better than the various tools I found that will offer to move Outlook/OE stuff to Thunderbird for you. One tool that looked promising simply exported all the Outlook/OE messages into .eml files and dumped them in the relevant Thunderbird profile. Although technically it *did* work, it was clumsy and inelegant. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq