Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?
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On 01/11/07 11:59, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 21:39 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> I've a colleague on the phone now: he wants to transfer Eudora mail
>> archives from a Windows partition -> Evolution under Debian - Testing.
>>
>> This will make his wife and his world Windows free for the most part :)
>>
>> TIA
>
> YWIA
>
> Why not connect your your Eudora E-Mail Client to a temporary IMAP
> server on your Linux machine and drag all the messages up there.
Heck, make it a permanent IMAP server on your Linux machine.
fetchmail and postfix aren't that hard to configure.
When I bought my wife a computer (we had been sharing mine),
pointing her Tbird to my server with all her existing emails was
trivial.
> Then with the new Evo E-Mail client drag them all back down.
>
> I just use IMAP and do server-side e-mail storage. I also do server-side
> sorting with procmail and mailfilter. Rather than tasking the client
> side so badly.
>
> Just an FYI, I have 21K messages in a few folders and Evo has no
> problem. Plus I can connect from anywhere in the world and get my mail +
> Mail archives. And I have made an attachment with all of my contacts in
> it and sent myself an e-mail, plus my PGP Key. Making getting contacts
> and PGP key easy for myself.
>
> I am also thinking about making an LDAP storage container for my
> contacts... making it even easier.
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