Issues exporting WLM to Outlook.

[thecomputerguy]

I will be replacing some workstations at a clients office along with moving his email from pop over to O365. Up to this point he has been using WLM for all of his email on 2 Windows 7 computers. About a year ago I tried to get him out of WLM and move him into Outlook but the export from WLM into his Outlook 2007 didn't go well.

The WLM export would crash midway through and the PST would be incomplete. It exported his folders into some obscure format replacing some of the folder title with some folder code created by WLM which makes the whole folder difficult to understand. I gave up on the project and just told him to continue using WLM and well deal with it when I replace the computers.

Well that time is now, and I was hoping it was just Outlook 2007 causing the issues so I installed Outlook 2016 and retried the export and literally the same thing happened. The export failed and just crashed halfway through, and the crazy folder format is still crazy.



I need to get these out of WLM since I can't install WLM on the new computer (Win10) even if I were only to use it for archive purposes and start fresh with O365 + Outlook 2016.

Any ideas?

 

[Porthos]

I can't install WLM on the new computer (Win10) even if I were only to use it for archive purposes and start fresh with O365 + Outlook 2016.

You can but you need the full installer. Here it is for you from my Amazon drive.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/xJM6Jn1nXI4CgAteE0fBuSLkS02U2X1rAm2Xi8lWYx5

 

[thecomputerguy]

You can but you need the full installer. Here it is for you from my Amazon drive.

https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/share/xJM6Jn1nXI4CgAteE0fBuSLkS02U2X1rAm2Xi8lWYx5

You are a saint!

They will be semi-ok with using WLM as an archive but anyone have any idea why exporting from WLM sucks so bad?

 

[fencepost]

For the crashes, I suspect that there's something corrupt within the WLM datastore that's only being touched during this.

For the other, if it's important enough you might set up and connect to a local IMAP data store, copy folders from WLM over to IMAP one at a time (because it's going to crash on one of them), then reverse the process into Outlook.

 

[Porthos]

Thunderbird can import from WLM. I dont remember if outlook can import from thunderbird.

 

[fencepost]

I dont remember if outlook can import from thunderbird

Messages are stored in plain-text mbox format, but you may run into issues with folder structure or reappearance of deleted messages if the file wasn't compacted.

 

[Porthos]

Messages are stored in plain-text mbox format, but you may run into issues with folder structure or reappearance of deleted messages if the file wasn't compacted.

I donthave many users using Outlook so I did not know right off my head.

Might be of assistance, Just add to their bill. https://www.pcvare.com/thunderbird-converter.html

Never used it though.

 

[carmen617]

If you can get the WLM data imported into Thunderbird, just add the Office 365 account in Thunderbird as a IMAP account. Then copy over all the folders and emails, that will get them to the server. Once they're on the server you can open the account in Outlook using exchange.

 

[GTP]

There is a version of Thunderbird that can directly import mail from WLM or Outlook.
It's not the mainstream one.
I have it here if you want it as I cannot remember where I found it.

 

[Markverhyden]

Stellar has a mbox to pst converter. I think @callthatgirl has used it before. The problem with washing WLM, or anything for that matter, through an IMAP is I'd not trust doing huge moves, especially since it's having problems.

 

[GTP]

Even if @thecomputerguy doesn't want it, I'd be happy to look after a copy of it for you. It's only backed up if it's in at least two separate countries...

Well seeing as how you asked so nicely......

https://www.jottacloud.com/s/031e370714683e648698ff6faf2cc6b0b51


@add: this link expires in 30 minutes...

 

[Larry Sabo]

There is a version of Thunderbird that can directly import mail from WLM or Outlook.
It's not the mainstream one.
I have it here if you want it as I cannot remember where I found it.

Downloadable from here, at a decent speed, too: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0b6/win32/it/

 

[GTP]

Downloadable from here, at a decent speed, too: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0b6/win32/it/

Is JottaCloud...is fast...lol

 

[Larry Sabo]

Is JottaCloud...is fast...lol

For old guys like you, @Barcelona. It was just 35kb/s or so for me IIRC vs 150kb/s or so from the Mozilla link.

 

[fencepost]

Not sure about the licensing (it's listed as per-computer and I didn't see any mention of technician licenses), but if you're going to be dealing with many of these this might be worth evaluating: https://www.maildev.com/mailtox-desktop/

Looks like it has quite the range of conversion options.

 

[GTP]

@Larry Sabo managed to find the direct link here:

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/60.0b6/win32/it/

But if you would rather get it from me:

https://www.jottacloud.com/s/031e370714683e648698ff6faf2cc6b0b51

30 minutes and counting.....

 

[Mainstay]

The only reliable way to ensure WLM gets into Outlook w/o the crash is to first go through and look for damaged envelopes.

Alternatively, setup a xfer Gmail account and add it to WLM... then drag and drop large chunks of emails onto the account. The transfer will fail on the damaged files so you will have to monitor and prune as needed. Once complete, you can then setup that Gmail account on their new Outlook, sync, then transfer to a new PST.

I have about 80k more emails to transfer tonight. Joy.