Comment 41 for bug 349312

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Holmesy (holmesy44) wrote : Re: [Bug 349312] Re: Evolution 2.26 does not support import of outlook .pst

My mistake.

I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 -Jaunty Jackalope.
I'll live with what I've got, and wait for future developments, but one
things for certain, I'm not going back to Microsoft.

Cheers Holmesy.

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 16:06 +0000, C de-Avillez wrote:
> OK, no problems.
>
> Now, back to your issue: you may not have done anything wrong, it may be
> as simple as you are not on the required Ubuntu version...
>
> Are you running Ubuntu Karmic? If you are not, it will not work. The
> necessary requirements are:
>
> - Ubuntu Karmic (a.k.a. Ubuntu 9.10, currently on Beta going to RC)
> - LIBPST 0.6.41
> - Evolution 2.28.* (all evolution and evolution-data-server packages, except the -dev ones)
> (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingEvolution, headers (1) and (2) for a list)
>
> You can check your Evolution version level by clicking on Help/About.
>
> Both Evo 2.28.* and Libpst 0.6.41 are *only* available for Karmic, and
> will not be backported to Jaunty or earlier. The code changes are
> significant, and I personaly do not think there is enough cause for a
> backport.
>
> On the other hand, if you are running Jaunty, you can convert PST files
> by running 'readpst' from a terminal. You will have to install the
> 'libpst' and the 'readpst' packages to do that.
>
> On the, er, other other hand, you *may* be able to use 'readpst' from a
> previous-to-Jaunty Ubuntu release, but these versions of 'readpst' do
> are unable to deal with PST files from Outlook 2003 onwards.
>
> Cheers
>