Apr 7, 2007

Painful

Why doesn't Outlook have any direct way to import Thunderbird email? One would think they would want to encourage it instead of making it so cumbersome.

Rename all mboxes to have the .mbx extension - this itself was a pain because I had so many folders and subfolders
Transfer all these mboxes over to the Windows machine
Install Eudora on the Windows system
Then copy them over to a Eudora install so that it can import them and create the correct index files
Finally get outlook to import from Eudora, and uninstall Eudora if you are not going to use it!


Sigh.

1 comment:

chaos said...

sigh!! ... poor you... sometime i feel i am so lucky that i am an idiot in new tech exchanges! huh!! (ignorence is bliss)?