[ale] Exporting M$ Express mail files (MacOS -> ???)

[John Mills]

Jim -

Thanks - but there's one hitch: I haven't found a version of thunderbird I 
can install under MacOS-8.6. Does anyone know of a work-around? I can 
export any given file or most directories from the iMac through 'ftp' or 
USB stick. I can them import them into a WinTel PC where I could install 
'thunderbird'.

I vaguely recall backing up a file called "Identities" when I upgraded M$ 
Outlook Distress to v-5 in this iMac. Does that sound right for any other 
environments?

I'll go looking for '*.pst' and '*.wab' files and see what I do find.

  - Mills

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Jim Kinney wrote:

> Put thunderbird on the mac first and use it's import function. Now you have
> a mostly) transparent migration process by just relocating the thunderbird
> files to a new machine. Moving pst files is always a bad idea.

> _USING_ pst files is always a bad idea :-)

> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:

>> The family iMac is about to move to another life and I need to capture my
>> wife's Outlook Express e-mail files and address book for some other mail
>> reader. If we go with some Linux box for her, what are the mail reader and
>> export/import options for doing this? Does 'thunderbird' have a way to
>> import M$ mail and addresses?