Import Email Data from MDaemon to Outlook with Complete Precision
Nowdays, emails are the most crucial part of any organization. There are plenty of applications available in online market, which helps users in exchanging their email messages. Among them, MDaemon and Outlook are the two mostly used email applications. Let’s explore more about them, their features and the file format they support :
MDaemon
MDaemon is an email and shareware server, developed by Alt-N Technologies. A Windows supportive application, MDaemon supports spam filtering, sharing groupware data, WorldClient (a browser based email application), ActiveSync, synchronization with Outlook via MDaemon connector for Outlook. All the user accounts (using POP, IMAP and SMTP protocols) are well supported by MDaemon.
File Structure of MDaemon
MDaemon files are saved in .msg format which is a plain text file and stored at :
C:/MDaemon/Users/example.com/
(Note : example.com is the domain name and may vary. All the user account’s data resides inside this domain.)
MS Outlook
Outlook is an Office Manager, which supports all editions of Windows. A Microsoft product, it comes included within MS Office package. It includes emails, contacts, meeting and schedule calendar, journal, tasks, notes etc. Outlook, basically is an independent application, but can also work in combination with MS Exchange, SharePoint Server.
The latest edition is of MS Outlook is 2016, which is updated to have all the new features of : Group redesigning, cloud searching, link attachments to cloud resource, email address internationalization, help feature named Tell Me, folder cluttering etc.
Outlook saves all its data in .pst file, which is stored at :
In Windows 7 and above editions: drive:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Microsoft\OutlookIn Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
MDaemon Email to Outlook Migration Issues – Solved with Third Party Utility
When you drag and drop Outlook emails, it gets saved in .msg format. But that doesn’t mean that MDaemon and Outlook emails can be interchanged with each other and imported in these applications. Because of the difference in their algorithms and programing languages, MDaemon’s emails cannot be imported in Outlook. IF a user tries to do so, the following error message is displayed :
MDaemon to PST Converter is one such program that will efficiently import all the MDaemon email messages to PST file with all the accurate email Meta elements – to, cc, subject, sent/received date, read/unread status etc. and formatting – font size and style, background, images, links etc. The software even manages to convert attachments and embeds them within the emails, unaltered and undamaged.
Users can use its multiple mailboxes migration option to batch import email data from MDaemon to Outlook, in one go. Every MDaemon mailbox folder will be converted and will get saved in a separate PST file, avoiding confusion of any kind. The converted PST file can be accessed in all editions of MS Outlook (32 and 64bit) – 2003, 2007 to the latest 2016, MS Exchange 2016, 2013 etc. and Office 365. A Windows compatible application, the software is easy to be operated on any Windows edition – 10, 8.1, 8, 7 and all earliest editions.
I have used MDaemon Migrator tool for converting my MDaemon data to PST format. You can also use the same tool to MDaemon to Outlook, Kerio, Scalix. Read for more details: http://www.birdiesoftware.com/mdaemon-migrator/