Topic: Importing Outlook data to Horde/Webmail

[David Farrick]

I posted this a while back but never had a reply.  I have tried exporting data in several different formats from Outlook and importing it into Horde/Webmail to no avail.  Has anyone had any luck importing data?

Dave

[Terry]

Yes, export to a .cvs file, import the .cvs file.  Did it a couple of years ago now, I do remember I had to manipulate the data in the csv file to different columns before I imported it.

[Bob King]

Does anyone know the CVS file structure requirements? ie what data can be imported, column titles etc.

Thanks
Bob

[Craig Jensen]

If you are talking about the address book import in webmail the new version of webmail (horde-imp-turba upgrade from Dan Brown's contribs) allows import of:

Comma separated
Tab separated
Outlook
Vcard
Mulberry address book
Pine address book

I have only used the CSV option and imported from 'The Bat!' (my desktop mail client) CSV backup.  I imported without changes and had very little to alter.  I do not know the actual expected format of the rows however.

Craig Jensen

[David Farrick]

I'm exporting from Outlook and have used the *.cvs format, both with and without headers.  I don't think the problem is on the exporting side.  I've looked at the file data and it looks correct.  

When I go to import into the e-smith webmail application, and yes, I have upgraded using Dan Brown's how-to info, nothing happens.  It looks like it's uploading the file, but when it's done I receive no error or success message, it just goes back to the import screen.  Obviously, when I check the address book, nothing has been loaded.  I'm thinking there's a permission problem somewhere on the server, but I have no clue where to start.

Dave

[Craig Jensen]

Do you see any reference in the logs?

Craig

[Tim Hogan]

If you try to import a cvs file that has comas included in some of the columns (such as an address or lastname "," firstname) it will cause problems.  I was having the same trouble importing cvs.  Once I got rid of any columns with comas as part of the data item the import went fine (but I was not able to import addresses).