Misc MSGConvert Stuff
Posted by matijs 01/04/2006 at 14h09
MSGConvert Updated
A user alerted me to the fact that a .MSG file containing another .MSG file
as an attachment isn’t converted properly by
my converter. It turns out, Outlook stores
attachments like that in a different way.
MSGConvert now also converts such files properly. As a bonus, it
also works with perl versions before 5.6 now.
Outlook2Mac
Another reader pointed out some time ago that a program I pointed to in my
FAQ, Outlook2Mac, didn’t work very well for him. It
is meant to be used for converting large amounts of email from Outlook to
mbox, but it seems to have trouble with certain dates and encrypted
messages. Also, some messages went missing.
I haven’t tried this program
myself, but others have. John Tolva writes:
I had to extract several year’s worth of e-mail with attachments using
a variety of filters and applications (Outlook2vCal and Outlook2Mac) to
create mbox files. This was the least painful part of the transition and it
took me days.
And the Applepie blog says:
I turned to a little program called Outlook2Mac. It costs $10 but does
a decent, albeit primitive, job of transcoding my PST into Apple Mail Mail
Boxes. […] Transcoding was fast, but it was often interrupted by a
message box asking me if I wanted Outlook2Mac to fix the send date of
certain message, or if I wanted Outlook2Mac to save a digitally signed
message to an insecure file format.
In a more enthousiast tone, Eric Evers writes:
Ten bucks yields switcher bliss!
I have not found any complaints of missing messages.
Still, I have removed the link from my FAQ, also because it is not Free
Software, and it requires Outlook to be installed, which sort of defeats
the purpose: If you have Outlook installed, there are
easier techniques available.