Comments on: Moving Outlook email (data) to Linux Evolution mail client

By: Badger

Badger — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 09:57:15 +0000

There is no need to use Thunderbird. All you need to do is install evolution-pst extension and import .pst file directly. Works very well.

By: Bel

Bel — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:40:09 +0000

I was able to get the Outlook Mail.sbd from my windows folder. But how will i copy the files inside of that folder to linux home-directory? (~/.mozilla-thunderbird) I don’t see a mozilla-thunderbird. Should i install thunderbird in ubuntu 10?

By: venkat

venkat — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:12:24 +0000

Dear Sir,

This is venkat, i previous used Linux with mail and evoulation.Afterwards backup the evoluation mail i saved. Now i am using Windows 7 Preium ,so that i want use back mails in the previous .

How to i can access the above. Please clarify the same.

Thanks & Regards’
venkat

By: godspiral

godspiral — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:48:34 +0000

you can point windows evolution to the mail store in your linux directory. windows tools to mount ext3 as a drive letter.

By: Brian McNeil

Brian McNeil — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Okay… I have what I think is a real challenge here.

Thunderbird imports my email from Outlook just fine – I have already done this a few times as I poked and tweaked Thunderbird to see how I could configure it. But, I never stopped using Outlook as my main mail store; I wanted to really know what my options were, and what would be the best.

Well, it looks like Evolution is the best solution.
It is tightly integrated with Ubuntu 9.04, right down to double-clicking on the desktop clock and getting a calendar integrated with it. Seriously nice.
AND, as I want to be able to continue to dual-boot, AND get at my email in either Ubuntu or Windows, it was a great find to discover there is a Windows version of Evolution available.

However, every single thing I have looked up says you cannot change the default location for Evolution storing mail from your home directory. This is bad. I need it on an NTFS volume so I can see it in Windows.

How on Earth do I deal with this?
There are hints that Evolution can via some sort of message rule automatically move email somewhere else. What do I need to do here to have a shared store and all mail sent or received either in Windows or Ubuntu, go into that shared store and both OS Evolution clients be able to see it?

This is made somewhat more difficult by having six email accounts on a variety of servers – some with, and some without their own SMTP-auth server, and a 1.5Gb store of mail in Outlook that goes back over 15 years.

Anyone up to *this* challenge?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:26:36 +0000

Something isn’t clear to me. I have the files from the Outlook Mail.sbd folder. However, trying to import them to Evolution from the GUI isn’t working, for some reason. As I’m not importing from an older version of anything, I’m trying to import the individual files, but, however, they don’t have an extension Evolution recognizes. There are files without extensions, and some with a .msf extension.

Do I need to have Thunderbird on Ubuntu as well in order to import, or is there some other step I’m missing here?

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:10:28 +0000

Ah, please disregard. Tried doing a search in Windows Explorer for the folder and it turned right up.

Thanks a lot!

By: Rebecca Wright

Rebecca Wright — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:07:32 +0000

Hey,

I managed to import everything from Outlook, however, for some reason, the commands to locate the Profile folder are not working. It’s not showing an error or anything, it’s just not… showing anything, just giving me a new command line when I hit enter.

I am running XP SP3, and Outlook 2003, so I dunno if that’s got anything to do with it.

Anyone have any ideas?

By: Richard N.

Richard N. — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:21:02 +0000

Countman, thanks for the link!!! I’ve export my Outlook and all the objects, I’m going to try to import into Evolution when I get home! Cross my fingers!

By: Anoop

Anoop — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:42:21 +0000

Hey,
Thanks for the instructions, it worked for me in RHEL5.2 from windowsXP. The directory structures where little different than mentioned above.
cheers,
– Anoop

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:52:28 +0000

This worked perfectly. Thanks!

By: AHSAN KHALIQ

AHSAN KHALIQ — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:59:16 +0000

I HAVE TRIED TO IMPORT DATA INTO THUNDERBIRD FROM OUTLOOK > MAIL, HOWEVER I GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR:

UNABLE TO SAVE YOUR MESSAGE AS DRAFT.
ERROR WRITING TEMPORARY FILE.

Note i have also arranged folder names in my personal folder to eight char long and there is no duplication in folder name between folders… if anyone can advise why the following error is occurring and suggest a solution. :-)

By: meh

meh — Tue, 27 May 2008 10:27:09 +0000

thanks..it worked..keep up the good work

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 27 May 2008 05:18:41 +0000

Worked GREAT! Successfully migrated from Outlook 2007 under XP pro SP3 to Evolution under Mandriva 2008… the “cd” areas are not quite the same as mine but I figured out the actual file locations easy enough. THANKS!

IBM Thinkpad R31, P3@1133MHz, 512 MB RAM.

Mandiva 2008 is AWESOME!

By: Adri

Adri — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:37:14 +0000

I followed the instructions and…it works!!! Thanks!!

By: Neuromancer

Neuromancer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:41:07 +0000

nice trick (: it works

By: Davias

Davias — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:51:35 +0000

I follow your procedure, but no luck with emails. I’ve got settings and contacts fine in Thunderbird for linux 2.0.6 (the one in Ubuntu repositories for my 7.10 Amd64) from windows version 2.0.9 but can only see a empty Local Forlders in main view. I tried to move around the mail directory, but no matter were I put it, it’s not recognized by Thunderbird. It looked simple, but is not working.

By: prajakta

prajakta — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:20:09 +0000

Hi,

Can Sucessfully tranfer mail from outlook to Evolution.
But …….. How do I do mass transformation with 300+ desktop and each user may have some folders created as well.
There can be a script written and can be run during the installation of linux desktops.
Any ways you need to have backup of mails from thunderbird manually.

By: Newbie On a Roll

Newbie On a Roll — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:52:36 +0000

Worked perfectly. Thanks

By: Sachin

Sachin — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:58:54 +0000

This solution is for the person who was having trouble importing outlook mail to thunderbird and was getting the following error:

“An error occurred importing mail from outlook
Error importing mailbox, unable to create destination mailbox.
Error creating destination mailboxes,cannot find mailboxes”

I was having the same problem, and the reason was that I had two sub-folders with the same name under two different parent folders. Once I renamed one of them the import worked fine.

Hope this helps!