Re: [newbie] Free of OE! - with IMAP

[Frank Bax]

At 07:37 PM 6/30/03, Miark wrote:
I've used Sylpheed forever for personal and list mail, but I've
been somewhat stuck to Outlook Express for all my business e-mail
because I could never find an easy _and_ effective way to convert.
(KMail's import utility, for example, is easy, but doesn't work
for crap.)
But (!) today I found DBXConv which is free program for Winsux that
converts dbx mail to mbox. It works perfectly and it's plumb easy.
So if anybody out there is stuck with OE against their will, give
this program a try: http://people.freenet.de/ukrebs/dbxconv.html


There exists a rather simple method to convert between *any* two email 
clients that support IMAP.  Simply setup an IMAP server, move all your mail 
folders to the server using your old client program, then copy them all 
back with the new client.

Frank 


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Re: [newbie] Free of OE! - with IMAP

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 21:21, Frank Bax wrote:

 There exists a rather simple method to convert between *any* two email 
 clients that support IMAP.  Simply setup an IMAP server, move all your mail 
 folders to the server using your old client program, then copy them all 
 back with the new client.
 
 Frank 

That is definitely one of the best ways of preserving email format and
data - provided, of course, that you have an IMAP server, or the ability
to set one up.

In the past, when I've had customers that have had damaged OE or Outlook
mail boxes that contain viruses/bugs and it hoses up their entire
system, I've copied the data to the IMAP server, deleted the problematic
email(s) and/or bugs, uninstalled their old email client, deleted the
stored mail, reinstalled their email client software, then copied all
their data back down into their client. Magic!

One customer had taken their box to three different shops around town
and everyone said Has to be completely blown out and you'll loose all
your email - and this person had some sensitive stuff to their research
(they're a writer) - I was the last stop. Took 45 minutes, saved every
damn piece of mail and got rid of the nasties.

...sorry, I was rambling...
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