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While setting up a new mail server, I had one workstation with outlook that would not login to the new mail server. After many hours of no progress, I exported the account I needed to migrate to a PST file and copied it over to my Arch Linux computer. I proceeded with the following steps to convert and upload

• Install libpst
  

  sudo pacman -S libpst
  

• Create a working directory and copy the PST:
  

  mkdir ~/email_temp
  cp email_account.pst ~/email_temp
  

• Convert PST to Mbox
  

  readpst email_account.pst
  

The Outlook file will be converted into a series of mbox files.

NOTE: The next program requires python2, make sure to install it:

sudo pacman -S python2

• Download imap-upload from the following URL:
  https://sourceforge.net/projects/imap-upload/files/imap-upload/1.2/imap-upload-1.2.zip/download

• Copy imap_upload.py to the working directory:
  

  cp ~/Downloads/imap_upload.py ~/email_temp
  

• Upload the Mbox files to the IMAP server:
  

  python2 imap_upload.py Inbox imaps://bob:Password@mail.example.com/Inbox
  python2 imap_upload.py Sent imaps://bob:Password@mail.example.com/Sent
  

Resources¶

http://serverfault.com/questions/392265/how-to-import-pst-extracted-from-exchange-db-to-linux-imap-server
http://imap-upload.sourceforge.net/