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Date:      Thu, 3 Dec 1998 21:59:18 -0500
From:      "Patrick Seal" <patseal@hyperhost.net>
To:        "FBSDQ" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Exporting Email from Win98
Message-ID:  <000001be1f32$15af7a00$016cfccd@foobar.hyperhost.net>

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I'm trying to export email from Outlook98 to my FreeBSD machine. I've been
using FreeBSD for a year now and all that's left to move to it is email.
Outlook lets you export to Netscape and a few other clients and also to a
.csp file (comma separated).  How could I format it too the UNIX format?
I'm fairly proficient in regex's and perl but I need to know the specifics
of how most mail programs in FBSD format raw mail.

I've noticed that it different mail messages are delimited by just 2 blank
lines then a line that (I assume) is added by the mail program that reads:

>From username Thu Dec  3 21:46:34 1998

Then the usual headers follow.

The only problem is that Outlook only exports the following fields (which
it slightly modifed anyway):
"Subject","Body","From: (Name)","From: (Address)","From: (Type)","To:
(Name)","To: (Address)","To: (Type)","CC: (Name)","CC: (Address)","CC:
(Type)","BCC: (Name)","BCC: (Address)","BCC: (Type)","Billing
Information","Categories","Importance","Mileage","Sensitivity"

Does anyone know of a FBSD/win95 app that can tranlate email to REAL plain
text for use with FBSD?  (I have over 5000 messages just since Jan)

I'm in the process of downloading eudora and a few other email clients to
see what they can do for me in terms of exporting!

Thanks!

Patrick Seal
patseal@hyperhost.net

Hyperhost
Web Hosting and Design
http://www.hyperhost.net


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