OT: How to send a Unix mbox of mail to an Outlook user?
I have a bunch of email messages in typical Unix mbox format. I wrapped them up in a MIME digest and forwarded them to my correspondent, but cc'd my gmail address as well. Gmail didn't do anything useful with the attachment (like explode the digest into individual emails), so I'm skeptical that my Outlook-using correspondent will get them in a form he can use. I won't know until tomorrow sometime, but I'm skeptical this worked. Any thoughts? Thx, Skip
Op dinsdag 28-11-2006 om 23:04 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef skip@pobox.com:
I have a bunch of email messages in typical Unix mbox format. I wrapped them up in a MIME digest and forwarded them to my correspondent, but cc'd my gmail address as well. Gmail didn't do anything useful with the attachment (like explode the digest into individual emails), so I'm skeptical that my Outlook-using correspondent will get them in a form he can use. I won't know until tomorrow sometime, but I'm skeptical this worked. Any thoughts?
Thx,
Skip
Skip, Your correspondent could install a local POP3 or IMAP server implementation, preferably something originally Unix/Linux that has been ported to Windows. Or he could use Cygwin. Once he has that local mailserver, he can use his Outlook client as usual. I know about a tool that directly converts .pst files to mbox format, but I don't know about any tool that does the opposite... (perhaps google knows?) -- Amedee
skip@pobox.com wrote on Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:05 PM -0500:
I have a bunch of email messages in typical Unix mbox format. I wrapped them up in a MIME digest and forwarded them to my correspondent, but cc'd my gmail address as well. Gmail didn't do anything useful with the attachment (like explode the digest into individual emails), so I'm skeptical that my Outlook-using correspondent will get them in a form he can use. I won't know until tomorrow sometime, but I'm skeptical this worked. Any thoughts?
I ran across http://www.broobles.com/imapsize/mbox2eml.php. This converts the mbox file to eml (individual Outlook Express messages), so there's an extra step to get to Outlook. I tried it on an mbox saved from Evolution on a Debian box and it worked. If you don't have access to a Windows box, I'd be happy to convert some files for you. Another option is to read it into Eudora, which produces Eudora's special indexed mbox files. Outlook can import these directly for version 3 and earlier of Eudora (at least for Outlook2K). Yet another thing you could do is to make the mbox available through an IMAP server and have your correspondent read the messages using Outlook. Finally, since you mentioned gmail, I ran into a gmail uploader written in Python that understands mbox files. http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/default.htm -- Seth Goodman
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