OT: kmail converter

[Joe Chasan]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 04:33:12PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> With neither thought nor caution, Joe Chasan blurted:
> > On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > > Quoting Joe Chasan (Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:28:45 -0500):
> > > 
> > > > i am looking for a converter from the kmail maildir format to ms-outlook
> > > > (.pst) - users have years worth of email in the kmail maildir format
> > > > mailboxes and are migrating off the debian linux box to windows.
> 
> That format isn't even completely documented.  Parts have been reverse
> engineered for various projects, but I have never seen a -full- definition
> that would result in a usable file.  There's a reason it's called
> proprietary.
> 
> > I had thought of having them FWD the messages to themselves - the idea 
> > in that post is the same amout of work but i guess at least it would
> > preserve the headers.
> 
> Don't forward:  Bounce/Resend.

i don't use/have kmail here - i couldn't tell you if it had bounce/resend
 
> Assuming the new systems all have their outlook set up, you set it up to
> bounce each message to the same user, and they should all pop in.  The only
> additions should be the following headers:
> 
> Resent-Message-Id:
> Resent-Date:
> Resent-From:
> Resent-To:
> 
> ...and whatever Received headers are applicable for the resend
> operation--but at least here on this system, sendmail preserves the
> original Received headers as well.  I don't think I've ever seen an MTA
> -not- do so on a resend.
> 
> If you're doing it in a scripted situation, you just have to add a Sender:
> header with the address that you want to have the resend as originating
> from while feeding the entire message to the MTA.  It's ultra-trivial to do
> resends.  Just add that one header as you feed it and *poof*.

not trivial to script - i was unable to feed the MTA in a quick 2 second
try - the headers are not what i'm used to with other systems.  

as a stupid aside - if you take any of the thousands of email messages
and rename it something.eml - outlook express can open it from windows
explorer.  outlook, the one you pay for, can not.  go figure.
 
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