"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ieen8f$25s...@digitalmars.com... > Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message >> news:ieegkh$1mu...@digitalmars.com... >>> Nick Sabalausky wrote: >>>> but I found OE's annoyances to overall be somewhat less annoying than >>>> Thunderbird's. >>> OE cannot back up or transfer its message database. That killed it for >>> me. >> >> Yea, that has been in the back of my mind ever since one other time that >> you mentioned it. Been meaning to do somethng about it, but just been >> kinda sticking with it anyway while I have 100 more urgent things :/ > > I procrastinated doing something about it for a long time, too, for the > same reasons. Until one day my machine got hit with a virus, and the only > way to get rid of it was to wipe & reinstall Windows. That was I think the > 3rd time I lost my O.E. database, and I'd had enough. >
Oh, I thought you were saying that the whole problem was just the whole proprietary storage format and that there wasn't a way to migrate to/from another email program. It *is* possible to backup and restore OE's DB, it just doesn't have a simple option for it through the UI: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670 Basically, for the messages, you just backup a certain directory, and there's a place in OE's options that will tell you the directory's path. There's also ways to backup/restore the address book and mail/NG accounts. Yea, it would definitely be nice if it had a single simple button to backup everything, or a simple way to cron it or something, but it is at least possible to backup/restore OE's data. > T-bird has its annoying problems, too, but losing my mail database can > have disastrous consequences for my business. I can back up T-bird's > database, and that is the #1 feature for me.