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Converting email from unix mbox to Outlook?

Because of business needs, I've recently been required to use Outlook for my email client. I have a couple of years worth of email data in unix mbox format that I would like to import, however, I can't seem to find anything that will accomplish this  . Can anyone here recommend a tool that will do this?

Wayne Earl
Thursday, March 4, 2004

Don't know of a standalone tool, other than Outlook itself.

I have an IMAP server running on my unix box, that I connect to with Outlook. My uw-imapd reads and stores folders as mbox files. It's just a matter of subscribing to the mbox file as a folder and drag'ndrop to an Outlook account.

Jay
Thursday, March 4, 2004

cp /my/mbox $MAIL
and then Outlook will suck it all up as new unread email :)

Joel Spolsky
Fog Creek Software
Thursday, March 4, 2004

Joel, I can't believe I didn't think of this. This works absolutely perfectly!

I need a vacation. :-)

Wayne Earl
Thursday, March 4, 2004

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