migrating mapi

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Dec 19 09:08:05 EST 2008


On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 11:50 +0100, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hi, I'm on the run to install a new cyrus imap server with 50 clients.
> All of them have mapi clients with their old pop account on Outlook or
> Express, containing all their history emails in folders.
> I was going to develop a mini tool to transfer mapi account folders
> and emails onto the imap server in Java, but it seems there is few
> chances to read mapi folders from Java...am I wrong?

Do you really need MAPI?  I didn't think Outlook Express did MAPI, only
"real" Outlook does.  Do you need to actually communicate with an
Exchange server or just process the local mail files (PST? EML?)

> In any case, I don't need this tool do be Java at all, it's just that
> I write only Java for years, and I'm skilled with JavaMail.
> I also searched for existing tools to do this, but found none.
> Can you help?

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