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[Bob Brown]

That is the Outlook Express format format I believe.
Search Google on DBX and Thunderbird for resources. THunderbird ought
to be able to handle it. I cannot see a Mozilla product not making it
amazingly easy to get you off of MS.

Bob

On 5/5/05, Don Parris <gnumathetes at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am now finding a little time to get back to the box that belongs to
> this family I'm helping.  They had Earthlink, and chose to change
> services at the same time they opted to try my services.  I gave them
> one of the ministry's spare boxes, with Ubuntu, and have theirs here.
> 
> I found their mailboxes from earthlink - appears to be an Access
> database and some other interesting *.dbx format (appears to be
> Earthlink's).  I also recovered a WAB file.  Any idea what my chances
> are of migrating the data to a format that Evolution (or T-bird, for
> that matter) can handle?  Or how to go about it?
> 
> Seems like it should be fairly simple to open these files on another
> doze box (if worse comes to worse), and ship the old e-mail/address
> data across the 'Net.  However, "seems" might be my famous last words.
> ;)  The lady of the house is the prominent computer user, and is
> resigned to a loss of data, if that's what it comes to.  However, I do
> have her data - it's just knowing how to get it into a usable format.
> 
> Any input at all is welcome.
> Don
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> you can share it with anyone anywhere anytime!
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