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cellio...a tool that will let me banish Outlook from my desktop once and for all.
I'm using Outlook at work through historical happenstance, even though I know it's hell-spawn and I've never actually liked it. I would like to switch to pine, a mailer that I know, like, and trust not to inflict virii and gratuitous HTML and similar crap upon me. The problem is that I have 10 months' worth of saved mail, in folders, that is important. I want to be able to move that mail to pine format. This means converting from whatever internal format Microsoft is using to plain text (no HTML markup), ideally in nicely-formatted lines under 80 characters, and pine-ifying it (inserting the characters that separate messages). Quoted text still needs to look like quoted text, even if the message used indentation rather than explicit demarcation. I want to preserve the existing sets of folders automagically; I'm willing to export one folder at a time and copy the resulting file to the right place in the pine directory structure, but I'm not willing to dump everything in one huge file and sort it out again.
I'm also not really willing to forward all my saved mail to myself, partly because of the one-huge-pile problem and partly because I want From lines to be meaningful. (The latter could possibly be fixed by a different script that would rewrite the resulting files.) Mostly, though, because it would be a tedious manual process.
I fear, though, that I'm going to be stuck with Outlook forever.
I'm using Outlook at work through historical happenstance, even though I know it's hell-spawn and I've never actually liked it. I would like to switch to pine, a mailer that I know, like, and trust not to inflict virii and gratuitous HTML and similar crap upon me. The problem is that I have 10 months' worth of saved mail, in folders, that is important. I want to be able to move that mail to pine format. This means converting from whatever internal format Microsoft is using to plain text (no HTML markup), ideally in nicely-formatted lines under 80 characters, and pine-ifying it (inserting the characters that separate messages). Quoted text still needs to look like quoted text, even if the message used indentation rather than explicit demarcation. I want to preserve the existing sets of folders automagically; I'm willing to export one folder at a time and copy the resulting file to the right place in the pine directory structure, but I'm not willing to dump everything in one huge file and sort it out again.
I'm also not really willing to forward all my saved mail to myself, partly because of the one-huge-pile problem and partly because I want From lines to be meaningful. (The latter could possibly be fixed by a different script that would rewrite the resulting files.) Mostly, though, because it would be a tedious manual process.
I fear, though, that I'm going to be stuck with Outlook forever.
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Date: 2002-02-07 06:02 pm (UTC)Along those lines, you might want to try Outlook2Unix (http://www.active-com.de/out2unix/), and then change over to Eudora? I've never used the product, but it's likely worth a shot. I recall someone making a Outlook2Evolution product as well (which'll be standard mbox as well), I can look it up if you like.
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Date: 2002-02-07 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm looking at Pine because I'm already familiar with it (I use it for my personal email); I've never used Eudora so I'd have to learn it. Which might not be a big deal, but I have a client that I know works, and it's a text format so I'll never have to deal with the proprietary BS again after this. (Not saying that Eudora uses a proprietary format; I have no clue what it uses.)