[TriLUG] Converting Unix mailboxes to Outlook pst format: batch mode

[Kevin Flanagan]

There is a tool for Windows, kind of like an automated clicker of
buttons, called autoit, but if the screen resolution is different, or a
window doesn't come to the top at the right time it fails.

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:00, Jon Carnes wrote:
> Depending on the version of Outlook you are using, you can do all the
> conversions on one machine, share out that mail folder, go to the client
> box and import their particular mailbox.  Might be faster.
> 
> Automating mundane windows tasks is not one of my specialties (thank
> god!), though in the long ago I did use a "recording" device that turned
> my keystrokes (and mouse clicks) into a macro that I could export from
> machine to machine.
> 
> If I were you, I would simply print up a fool proof web-page showing
> folks what to do, make the imap mailboxes Read-only, and then turn the
> users loose onto the task.  Then you only have to help the execs and
> Lusers that can't follow basic written instructions to do easy tasks.
> 
> You'll also have to log who accesses which files - and let folks know
> you are doing that...
> 
> Alternately, you could turn an intern loose onto the job. Repetitive,
> boring, mundane tasks are their tofu and potatoes.
> 
> Good Luck - Jon
> 
> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 18:06, Glen Ford wrote:
> > Glen Ford wrote:
> > 
> > > Jon Carnes wrote:
> > >
> > >> Run an IMAP daemon on the server in question (or copy the MBox still
> > >> mailboxes up to a server running an IMAP daemon) - setup the users to
> > >> download the email via IMAP.
> > >>
> > >> Works like a charm.
> > >>
> > >> Jon Carnes
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:19, Glen Ford wrote:
> > >>  
> > >>
> > >>> Looking for any pointers.  I have a need to convert massive amounts 
> > >>> of unix style mailboxes to Outlook PST format mailboxes.
> > >>>
> > >>> Ideally would like to run in batch mode. I have done google search 
> > >>> for convertion tools. So far nothing that is both capable of batch 
> > >>> mode & mbox ---> outlook.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Any feedback is appreciated,
> > >>> /Glen
> > >>>   
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>  
> > >>
> > > Jon,
> > >
> > >    You were right, it did work like a charm. Thank you very much !
> > >
> > > /glen
> > >
> > 
> > Anyway to automate(batch) the setting up of the Outlook accounts?
> >  I am getting tired of doing it manually.
> > 
> > 
> > I to keep the one-to-one relationship between a mbox and its outlook pst 
> > file.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > /glen
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