mbox question

[techsharp]

All,

I have a user's mbox and need to restore the email to Outlook through a PST. The user does not have an account anymore as it was deleted.

Is there any way to get the mbox to a .PST file? This would be a big help -

Thank you

[jaime.pinto]

The native email format of Netscape is mbox.
If you download and install netscape (7.2 or 8,1) and configure messenger as a Scalix IMAP client (for any user), you can just open the mbox as a local mailbox. From there you can copy the emails in the mbox format to the scalix server. No need to bother with outlook.

But if you insist on having a pst file, just use outlook or outlook express to import emails from netscape. You can them export pst.

[techsharp]

Hi Jaime,

I would rather have a .PST so I can burn it to a CD and send it off to the user - since he is not here anymore, but will need his old emails.

My question is - how do I get the emails from the mbox imported into netscape?

I installed 7.2 - went to import and it asked me what program I would like to import from. It does not let me choose the actual .mbox file.

What is the best way I can import them in netscape then use outlook to import from netscape?

Thanks!

[techsharp]

Here are the steps I took:

I made an IMAP account and put the mbox file into:

c:\Documents and Settings\(user)\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\default\y6d17pc.slt\Mail\Local Folders

I then open up Netscape mail and I see the name of the mbox listed as a folder.

There are 60 emails that have some headers and no text. The big problem is that this mailbox is 573MB w/ a lot in the inbox with a ton of subfolders.

I am doing this on a windows machine - should I be doing this in Linux instead? Or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

EDIT: I tried this in Linux and the same thing happened..

[techsharp]

Any ideas?

Have not tried anything in a few days - hope everyone had a good 4th of July!