ping Outlook-isti

Never used gmail, but I'm talking about eight years' worth of emails
here, and I get hundreds, sometimes thousands a week, many of which
are diverted into the very folders I'm trying to save. So the sheer
volume would counter-indicate that approach. Worth thinking about
though, I guess.

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I'm with Krusty on this. Dump your .pst's into Gmail and then have a
rule set up that all new mail received, and set, is also sent to your
gmail.

Gmail doesn't do folders, but it does labels, which sounds rubbish but
is actually much more useful. It's also very very easy to search, if
you have half and idea what you want to search for.

 

Indeed they are. If you can persuade thunderbird to import your existing
archive from .pst all will be well.

Hoh yus. Also, straight to Access from Outlook 2003, which I now realise
I have on my system but have never used before. The problem being
attachments are lost.

Hold fire. As an experiment I set up my Outlook 2003, squeezed a message
out and then tried to get it out with the mail_archive application and
got an error.

There are other shareware utilities out there though that might work OK.

Once they deny .pst archiving, Krusty's strategy might also work with
your ifrance account (assuming it supports PoP3 collection and you have
the rights to set that up using thunderbird on the machine you want to
use).

I can't see how the thunderbird import solution will work once you can't
create .pst files.


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Ta. Certainly doing something, but I think it may do better hooked up
at work instead of working remotely. I'll let it run for a while more
yet.
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I was hoping I'd just be able to C&P the emails themselves. No?

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I'd try that. It'll be dog slow, if you've got a big PST and are
running through a VPN.

 

In the very worst case scenario, you can drag and drop the emails into
a standard folder.

 

No, but my eye was caught by the import .pst and export to ASCII
function described here;
<http://www.mailnavigator.com/reading_ms_outlook_pst_files.html>
which seems to be fully functional in the trial version.

Of course, it could all be bollocks...

 

Aye. Stopped it now - try again Monday.
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Well if I can drag from my Outlook inbox into the Tbird folder
structure it's exactly what I'm looking for. This completely mimics my
current working practice of just copying my inbox into an archive
folder every six months or so.

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I've got a fairly usable macro, found somewhere on interweb that
extracts the attachments to a separate folder. I use it to reduce the
size of the .pst files, if it would be any help I can email it. In
fact it's only a couple of dozen lines so could be posted here.

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You've been working in the pharms industry a long time, haven't you?

 

Heh, you may be right. But that's a fairly normal term, shirley?

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I thought it was contraindicate, or is that to do with identifying
certain Nicaraguans?


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I think if you're making words up you can spell them how you like.
Your spelling is perhaps more common in medical circles, but mine
might be more general.

Heh.

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I don't think so - I've never heard it used in my industry, for
example. It immediately smacked of 'meds' to me.

 

Well I've given up on thunderbird now, as it just doesn't do anything,
so I though I'd give it a try, but get a Site blocked message
"Malicious Web Sites;Security "

Even trying to open it via a web proxy just hangs it. I may try from
home tonight, but in the meantime I'm just exporting everything to
..csv files, as suggested elsewhere. At least this actually seems to
work, although searching and sorting may be less than simple. Still,
at least I won;t lose anything.

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Well as it doesn't even work at importing the .pst files, I thought
I'd give it a try.

Nope. Doesn't allow anything to be copied, except as raw text, from
Outlook to Tbird. So I'm giving up on it, but thanks for the effort.

Any other bright ideas anyone?


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http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

Any use?