Migration from Microsoft Outlook to Kolab

[Thinker Rix]

Hi Henning,

Thank you for your time!

On 2014-03-14 04:00, Henning wrote:
> Am 19.02.2014 18:27, schrieb Thinker Rix:
>> the time has come and we will now migrate to Kolab finally.
>>
>> Currently we have 4 users using Microsoft Outlook (with MS Windows) on
>> as stand alone application (i.e. without any groupware server such as
>> Microsoft Exchange, etc.). Each of those users saves his email and other
>> PIM data such as address book, calendar, tasks and notes inside his
>> personal file (.pst).
>> Now what we want to do is to migrate windows to GNU/Linux and Outlook to
>> Kontact. Aditionally we want to install Kolab to act as a PIM server for
>> Kontact.
>>
>> What we want to ask is:
>> - How do we migrate those .pst files to Kontact/Kolab in the easiest and
>> most solid way? We have seen https://wiki.kolab.org/Microsoft_Exchange
>> but could not really make head or tail of it, since there are multiple
>> solutions listed, but no recommendation and many things seem outdated
>> (speaking about Kolab 2.1 etc.). Further some of the solutions talk
>> about how to migrate MS Exchange, but we do not need that. We have only
>> Microsoft Outlook as stand alone application. So: Could anybody give us
>> a suggestion/hint/advice/feedback on how to migrate from Outlook 2007 to
>> Kontact / Kolab 3.1 in the best and easiest way?
>> - Will we be able to migrate anything from the .pst (including tasks and
>> notes) or only parts of it?
>> - Is there anything special to know and keep in mind for this migration?
>>
> wouldn't be the easiest for 4 (!) users to have it done by each one of them.
>
> 1. setup your imap server
> 2. Add that server in MS Outlook (so on the client side)
> 3. Just copy all mail to that server.
>

Thank you for this idea, I think it sounds very good.
If I understand you right, what I would need to do is:
- I set up Kolab as IMAP mail server, what anyway I would want to do
- Currently the users have local mail in Outlook .pst that had been 
received via POP as well as mail that lives in their IMAP-folders at our 
internet provider. So I would just download the IMAP mail to their local 
folders inside their .pst
- Then I connect their Outlooks to our new Kolab IMAP mail server and 
move all mail from their local .pst to their IMAP folder on our new 
Kolab server

Correct? Sounds pretty straight forward and clean! If I got this right, 
than I think this would be the best solution for mail.
But how about the other elements such as contacts, calendar and tasks? 
Is there maybe a similar straight-forward solution for those, too?

Thanks for any feedback!!

Cheers
Thinker Rix

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