From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5799 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Migrating mail from MS Outlook to Gnus Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:52:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1107856986.639918.39530@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671456 28891 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:37:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:51 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-143-56.26-151.libero.it Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1128189102 10764 151.26.56.143 (1 Oct 2005 17:51:42 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 17:51:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:w7ga5sM9LJZ9AUhRkBHf7F8jC2A= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5941 Original-Lines: 60 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5941 Tue Jan 17 17:35:51 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5799 Archived-At: I worked the problem out, but in a quite laborious way: I had to re-compose by hand the messages, extracting them from Outlook one by one. There are tools that allow to do so automatically, but I tried 'out2unix' and was not satisfied with it because the original headers are not preserved but replaced by new fictitious ones. I also heard about 'Outport', but haven't tried it because don't know how to install it. The problem is to extract information from the damned mailbox.pst file where Outlook stores its mail. I'm reporting the manual procedure I've been following. Rodolfo ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; MS Outlook 2000 I saved the body and the headers of each single message, one by one: I started Outlook and opened the message. From the menu, View > Options > Internet Headers , and copied and pasted the headers into a file created with Notepad and named 'message.txt' (the '.txt' extension is automatically put by Windows, you must not put it and won't see it until you go into Linux), located at: 'C:\rodolfo\mail-old'. Again, from the message menu, Edit > Select All , and copied and pasted the message body into 'message', after the headers. Attention: 1) at the beginning of 'message' I did one empty space, then RET, then one empty line, then RET and then the headers; 2) one empty line between the headers and the body; 3) one empty line at the end. I rebooted the PC and entered Linux. In '/mnt/windows/rodolfo/mail-old' there was the file 'message.txt'. I did: $ cd /mnt/windows/rodolfo/mail-old $ emacs message.txt , then cut and pasted its content into a new file named 'message' with no extension at all. Some encoding problems might arise, with symbols encoded by MS Windows and not recognized by emacs, i.e. the euro sign, that appears in emacs as: '\200' and the three dots: '\205'. I had to find them in 'message' buffer and rewrite them. I saved 'message'. I deleted 'message.txt'. . Then, within emacs, 'M-x gnus-unplugged', and from the group buffer: G f message . This way a new nndoc group was created. I entered this group and: B c , and the message was copied into the group I wanted. I killed the nndoc group that had been created, quitted gnus and restarted it.