Support #480
Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago
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
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sudo pacman -S libpst
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* Create a working directory and copy the PST:
<pre>
mkdir ~/email_temp
cp email_account.pst ~/email_temp
</pre>
* Convert PST to Mbox
<pre>
readpst email_account.pst
</pre>
The Outlook file will be converted into a series of mbox files.
*NOTE*: The next program requires python2, make sure to install it:
<pre>
sudo pacman -S python2
</pre>
* 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:
<pre>
cp ~/Downloads/imap_upload.py ~/email_temp
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* Upload the Mbox files to the IMAP server:
<pre>
python2 imap_upload.py Inbox imaps://bob:Password@mail.example.com/Inbox
python imap_upload.py Sent imaps://bob:Password@mail.example.com/Sent
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h2. Resources
http://serverfault.com/questions/392265/how-to-import-pst-extracted-from-exchange-db-to-linux-imap-server
http://imap-upload.sourceforge.net/