Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 22, 2006 01:47 AM
> Since you're writing about im- and exporting mail, you must be storing mail locally. Something that I haven't seen anyone do in a corporate environment for some 5 years now.
Many do store mail locally, which really is totally braindamaged -- but you get these guys are not really professional, since they use Windows/Outlook which is just asking to be hit by a virus; in my case, though, I configure Thunderbird to store files on the fileserver (each user has a private area on the fileservers).
IMAP is really a very neat suggestion, thanks, appreciated... people at work almost don't use IMAP, maybe because of tradition or because we have a small inbox folder at the mailhost and the mail admin is a BOFH who does not want lusers to steal his server mail storage...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
Of course, a nobrainer is just forward one's messages to himself and d/l them to/from Thunderbird; this changes messages dates, which is undesirable. I guess changing from privately (even if non-locally) stored messages (POP) to IMAP would have the same undesired effect.
It must be mentioned there is a way to export messages from Thunderbird back to Outlook, but last time I checked it involved a not so pleasant Windows script (or so I remember...)
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Re:Regular user.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 22, 2006 01:47 AMMany do store mail locally, which really is totally braindamaged -- but you get these guys are not really professional, since they use Windows/Outlook which is just asking to be hit by a virus; in my case, though, I configure Thunderbird to store files on the fileserver (each user has a private area on the fileservers).
IMAP is really a very neat suggestion, thanks, appreciated... people at work almost don't use IMAP, maybe because of tradition or because we have a small inbox folder at the mailhost and the mail admin is a BOFH who does not want lusers to steal his server mail storage...<nobr> <wbr></nobr>;-)
Of course, a nobrainer is just forward one's messages to himself and d/l them to/from Thunderbird; this changes messages dates, which is undesirable. I guess changing from privately (even if non-locally) stored messages (POP) to IMAP would have the same undesired effect.
It must be mentioned there is a way to export messages from Thunderbird back to Outlook, but last time I checked it involved a not so pleasant Windows script (or so I remember...)
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