RE: Mails from Win to Linux, troubles with .wab, Palm use

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 00:49 +0000, Blast o_O wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the answers ;) they were all very usefull, but I'll need to
> add other ones...
> 
> Now, I have others problems related to migration:
> 1- While moving and formating data, I saved my address book to .wab format,
> and now I can't open or import it, 'couse It launchs an error box, do you
> know some way to fix .wab address books!???

Wab?  I'm going to gues that that means Windows Address Book?

Was not T-bird also able to import Outlook addresses?

> 2- I don't know yet which mail client should I use in Debian, I work with a
> huge mail traffic, and I use a 515 Palm, but don't know which one from all
> mail clients is better working together to Palm handheld. Does somebody have
> some experience working with Palms in Debian!!??

Google for Evolution and Multisync.  My wife and I like Evolution
because it looks like and functions similarly to Outlook.  Without
the security risks, of course.

> Mordiscos,
> Blast o_O
> 
> PD: ... piensa zombie, piensa... arráncate la cabeza y piensa... "THe
> ThinKer" 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net] 
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:50 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Mails from Win to Linux
> 
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 00:00 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Blast o_O wrote:
> > > Hi guys, I want to move all my mails to Debian, but I don't know how 
> > > to import there my .pst from my Outlook, what can I do!!??
> > >   
> > I think you'll find that the easiest, most reliable method is to use 
> > an IMAP server, point your Outlook to it, move all your mail to the 
> > server, then point your Debian mail client to the IMAP server, and 
> > move them down (or just leave them on the IMAP server).
> 
> That's if he can have 2 machines running, networked, at the same time.  Not
> always possible at home.
> 
> Grabbing Win T-bird and using it to import Outlook mail to mbox using the
> W32 MAPI (then burning the mbox to CD-R if you are wiping the whole disk) is
> the standard single-machine solution.
> 
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