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Hi

I've downloaded and installed readpst-dbg_0.5.3-1 i386.deb. Now what? I don't see an option anywhere in Evolution allowing me to import an Outlook pst file. Please advise.

Download link is http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libp/libpst/readpst-dbg_0.5.3-1_i386.deb

On latest Ubuntu8.10

What else do you need to know? Recognize I'm a 3 day old Linux user, from the Window's world if you need anything more.

Mike

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This question was originally filed as bug #297770.

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) said : 		#2

Currently Evolution does not support directly importing Outlook .pst files; such support has just been added upstream by the Evolution developers, and should be available for Evolution 2.26 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty.

The readpst package provides an out-of-band way of doing so, by running it by hand from a terminal. You can convert an existing .pst file by running it from a terminal as follows:

readpst -o output-directory mypst.pst

This will read the Outlook PST file "mypst.pst", and generate an equivalent MBOX file (compatible with Evolution, and a series of other email clients) under the directory "output-directory".

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