does em client 5 now reliably import .pst files?

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Can you please be more specific? eM Client imports PST files without any major problems. Most of the minor issues has been fixed but they appeared only rarely.

I’ve been looking at alternatives to Outlook, having just bought a new PC running Windows 7. My old computer runs Win2k, with microsoft office xp, which includes Outlook. I have generated several .pst files (largest is 240M), each of which has come from a top level directory within Outlook, with subdirectories below.
The reason I asked the question was that few, if any, other Outlook alternatives cope directly with .pst files, and blogs found while searching for whether eM Client could cope implied some problems. The latter may well have been outdated queries, or have related to previous major versions of eM Client.