Migration from Windows to Linux

[Bill McGonigle]

On Oct 27, 2004, at 13:49, David Ecklein wrote:

> For instance, one big problem is moving email accounts and settings 
> (where possible and relevant) from Win to Lin (and perhaps back 
> again).  Even doing this between two Win systems is non-trivial and 
> therefore some excellent utilities have become necessary (and 
> available) to aid the user.  Most of these compress the source system 
> email account into a file which is later expanded appropriately on the 
> target system.  The ideal would be a similar utility to assist Win-Lin 
> migration of email accounts.  There may be such utilities; does anyone 
> know?

I typically setup an IMAP server (e.g. cyrus) and drag & drop the mail 
folders from [typically] Outlook to the IMAP server.  Then you can get 
at it with anything (e.g. Thunderbird, Squirrelmail, Evolution).  The 
general rule being if you can get it out of Microsoft-proprietary 
whatever into anything standard, you're going to be OK.  Sometimes you 
can't export it so easily - once you understand this, you start to 
realize that *your* data is being held captive by Microsoft, unless you 
pay them a yearly or semi-yearly fee.  Kinda sounds like protection 
money after a while.

> Rumney NH (anyone up beyond Concord want to form a northern chapter?)

DLSLUG <http://dlslug.org/> is about at your latitude - 118 and 4 
aren't interstates, of course.

-Bill
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