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signal9 | Dec 15 2005
I'm in an interesting pickle. We (my wife, kids, and I) have been using Linux on the desktop exclusively for the last 5 years. Last week, I bought my wife & I each a shiny new laptop to help alleviate competition for our single desktop. For now, I have no intention of trying to shoehorn Linux onto these boxes. We'll see how long I can stand it. We are dedicated Thunderbird users. As mentioned in an earlier post, I've been using fetchmail to pull my mail from my 3 or 4 POP accounts, and drop them into my local IMAP server. This made migration to the laptop really easy for me. Connect to the server, and I'm rolling. My wife, on the other hand, has been using Thunderbird as a POP client, pulling the mail directly to her TB inbox. Now, in theory, it should be pretty easy to move TB mail/etc. between computers of the same OS. I've even read about folks moving mail from Windows to Linux. I have not read about anyone moving mail from Linux to Windows. Anybody fooled around with this? 1 Comment
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 Alrighty, I probably got a...Submitted by signal9 on December 15, 2005 - 10:40pm.
Alrighty, I probably got a little hung up on the problem in the last post, and missed the part where I meant to say that despite the fact that I'm very happy w/ Thunderbird, it could be easier to migrate mail. That being said, I've solved my mail migration issues this very evening. In earlier posts, I mentioned that I ran an IMAP server locally. Further reading into the TB knowledge base at mozillazine.org found a suggestion to use TB's robust IMAP features to upload the old mail onto the IMAP server, then bring it down again onto the new host machine. Given that I use Fetchmail+Postfix+Procmail+SpamAssassin for my own mail, it was nothing to configure my wife in the same way. Now all mail accounts are polled by the Linux box, where IMAP clients may access the mail (pre spam filtered) at thier leisure. Not a bad setup, all in all. Next up, setup ClamAV on the server-side for virus protection. » POSTED IN:
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