[ale] Exporting M$ Express mail files (MacOS -> ???)

[Greg Freemyer]

RE: PST files

Outlook express does not use pst files.  It uses DBX files and it can
actually open a RFC-822 e-mail.  (Outlook itself cannot do that.)

As to moving pst files around, I disagree.  We move them around;  Burn
them to CD;  Attach small ones to e-mails; etc. all the time.  For
best results you need Outlook to work with a PST, but it is actually
one of the best containers for e-mails I have worked with.  Very hard
for the end user to tamper with the underlying e-mail because of the
proprietary structure of the container.

ie. e-mails are business records and there is a strong business
advantage to having a strong barrier to manipulation inherent in the
way they are maintained.  OTOH, I have never tried to after the fact
manipulate a thunderbird e-mail, but the mailbox structure it uses is
very simple so I assume it could easily be done.  For this reason I
would hesitate to recommend to a client that they maintain their
business record e-mails within Thunderbird.

Greg


2008/5/6 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> Put thunderbird on the mac first and use it's import function. Now you have
> a mostly) transparent migration process by just relocating the thunderbird
> files to a new machine. Moving pst files is always a bad idea.
>
>  _USING_ pst files is always a bad idea :-)
>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> > ALErs -
> >
> > The family iMac is about to move to another life and I need to capture my
> > wife's Outlook Express e-mail files and address book for some other mail
> > reader. If we go with some Linux box for her, what are the mail reader and
> > export/import options for doing this? Does 'thunderbird' have a way to
> > import M$ mail and addresses?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >  - Mills
> >
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