Hi
On Friday 29 June 2012 at 8:51:37 AM, in <mid:919985856.20120629085...@gjctech.co.uk>, Geoff Lane wrote: > FWIW, reliance on TB! is one of the things that prevent > me from going completely over to Linux, I've aspired to switching to Linux for at least a couple of years, and been fiddling about with it from time to time since last summer but still not taken the plunge. > so it's good to > read that one can run TB! successfully under WINE. I think people have mentioned there are some minor issues but that on the whole it runs successfully. I've not tried myself... > To answer your question: In my case there are two > reasons:- 1. I have a lot of time and effort invested > in my sorting office rules, templates, and address > book and have no wish to duplicate that effort. I have quite a lot of sorting office rules, many of which are no longer relevant so I should spend time going through it anyway. My templates are modular, with heavy use of QTs so that things only need updating in one place. I make very little use of address book templates, so would expect to be able to export my address books from TB! and import into something else without too much hassle. A client that couldn't use multiple address books and/or a feature like AB groups would be an issue for me. > 2. I > archive messages rather than just delete them, I delete some and archive the rest via rules that move them into "archive" folders in a password-protected TB! account. > I'm not > sure whether the archive software I use (Mailbag > Assistant from Fookes Software) can run successfully > under WINE, Whether you take their word for it is up to you, but Fookes Software's website at <http://www.fookes.com/mailbag/specifications.php> says:- Mailbag Assistant has the following minimum requirements: Windows 98 / 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / NT4 / ME / XP / Vista / Windows 7, or Mac OS / Linux in conjunction with Wine. > and I don't want to risk 'losing the > lot' if it seems to at first but later turns up a > 'gotcha'! Of course. (-; -- Best regards MFPA mailto:expires2...@rocketmail.com No matter where you go, there you are. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.42 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
