exporting from a PST file

[ztirffritz]

Does anyone know of any FREE applications that will export from a PST tile to an MBOX file? All of my archived email at work is stuck in Outlook PST files. If I want to search my archives, I must fire up VMWare and open Outlook to see it. What a pain...I found some software that will export it, but it all costs money. Microsoft is so arrogant (and smart). They'll let you import your email from any of about 200 different file types. But you can only export to 2 different types, PST or CSV. PST is proprietary to MS. CSV is useless.

[Lew Zealand]

I looked into this about a year ago and didn't find a free alternative.

[bik]

Not necessarily free, and therefore probably not useful, but...

If you can get access to Entourage, Mail.app can import directly from the Entourage installation.

Most Macs used to come with a free trial of MS Office 2004. Not sure what vintage your Mac is, but if you happen to have the Office trial on your original OS DVD, you could install Office/Entourage, download the PST import tool for Entourage, import your mail to Entourage, then import that mail into Apple mail directly from Entourage.

[onthedownlow]

Here is one free way for you to try (if you'd like...but I"d backup your .PST files, etc. first): http://www.riches.com.au/articles/export...ourage.htm

...but the best thing you can ever use for Little Machines' O2M...it is not free, but $10...well worth it - free upgrades, etc. I think your time is worth a bunch more than $10 with the process that you are doing now - so if you want to change it, it's not much scratch to put down.

I have used it many, many times...works great. http://www.littlemachines.com/

[rz]

Thunderbird is free, and will do the job as long as it's on the same machine as Outlook. When you setup Thunderbird, it will ask if you want to import your email, and Outlook is one of the choices. Thunderbird stores its email in mbox format.