importing from Windows to Firefox on linux

[roland]

On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:10:10 +0100, Les <hlhowell at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Hi, everyone,
> I figured out the business of opening thunderbird on the windows machine
> and importing the mail folders then exporting them to the transfer disk,
> and reimporting them on Linux (It was a pain importing one folder at a
> time, first creating the folder, then importing the file into it, but I
> did it.)
> Now I can't get the address book to import.  It is a CSV list.  I
> checked it out and it appears correct.  Here is the header and one line:
> First Name,Last Name,Middle Name,Name,Nickname,E-mail Address,Home
> Street,Home City,Home Postal Code,Home State,Home Country/Region,Home
> Phone,Home Fax,Mobile Phone,Personal Web Page,Business Street,Business
> City,Business Postal Code,Business State,Business
> Country/Region,Business Web Page,Business Phone,Business
> Fax,Pager,Company,Job Title,Department,Office Location,Notes
> A,Smith,,A. Smith,,AJSmith(at)somemail.com,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
>
> This looks good.  When I import the file, it recognizes it as a CSV
> file, and imports it into "Personal", but when I check my address book
> it is empty.
>
> There are no error messages, no problems that I can detect, just the
> data is absorbed into some mysterious bitbucket without accomplishing
> the desired goal.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Regards,
> Les H
>
Dear Les,

Two possibilities:
a. Just export the contacts in Thunderbird als a .ldif file and import it  
in evolution as one file. This does not work allways.
b. install the program outport.exe from  
http://outport.sourceforge.net/faq.php. it will get the contacts and  
agenda out of outlook.pst. Again I have to say that it doesn't work  
allways. I did this on many pc's and some were correct and some not. Don't  
ask me why. The agenda should be correct.

Good luck
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