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You can use IMAP to move messages from an old client to a new one

You can use IMAP to move messages from an old client to a new one

Posted Mar 5, 2004 11:55 UTC (Fri) by kelvin (guest, #6694)
In reply to: You can use IMAP to move messages from an old client to a new one by steveha
Parent article: Review of Evolution 1.5.2

This would work for most mail clients, but Outlook is a non-standard IMAP client. The mail it stores on an IMAP server is only plain-text with an attachment called winmail.dat -- a binary file which in turn includes the original mail and its attachments. This means that the imap method of importing mail only works if you don't need rich text or attachments. Sad but true.


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