I've done this. I set up a computer with dovecot, a very simple imap folder. Then I connected to it from my outlook and copied the files over. To be fair, I was doing the exact opposite, but it works both ways.<div><br>
</div><div>If you were using Evolution (and hence not using PST files) I would warn you that it has some IMAP bugs that can cause you to lose e-mail when moving folders. Outlook, while buggy, is just agonizingly brain-dead when it comes to IMAP, but won't actually cause you to lose any data.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:44 PM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Having extracted a large quantity of one user's email from the archives (14K message, 4.2 GB *compressed*), the next problem is how to 'show' them to management.<br>
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> No local mail server (it is outsourced)<br>
> No simple way to get the file here to the lab without munching their connection<br>
> Outlook client for viewing<br>
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Given that Outlook would most like roll over and die if we tried to import that many messages (and probably leave that user's PST in an usable state), .. and the apparent lack of any way to create a PST from them, wonding if anyone had a suggestion?<br>
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One thought I had - apparently "EML" emails with Outlook are individual files - has anyone ever tried to convert Maildir files to .EMLs?<br>
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Lee<br>
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