E-Mail (Linux/Windows)

Siji · Post by **Siji** » October 25, 2009, 11:41 am

So I've mostly converted completely to Linux any functionality I need short of Adobe programs but the one outstanding thing I have issue with is email. I want to keep Outlook active and then probably Thunderbird (anyone have opinions on Zimbra?) on Linux. The issue is that I can't find a way to import PST into Thunderbird short of installing TB on Windows, importing there, then copying the data files to my Linux install. Not exactly a graceful method.

IMAP is a nice solution that I'm looking at but I'm curious as to how easy/hard it is to setup an IMAP server on each OS (Win/Linux) that could share the same data files so I don't have to do any importing/exporting etc.. I've got emails going back to the 90's in PST format that I need/want to keep and if I could get it all imported into an IMAP server to share, that would be awesome and the email client wouldn't matter.

Anyone go through this already and have any tips/suggestions?

BTW: I don't care so much about getting to this email outside of my home network, so don't care about connectivity. I just need it on the one PC shared between OS's.

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » October 26, 2009, 12:34 pm

My main PC, for gaming reasons, is Windows and I still run Outlook 2003 (or 2007? Whatever version before they went full retard with the ribbon) and I too have PST archives that go back into the 90s, so I feel your pain. My other PC and laptop run Ubuntu and I just use Gmail in a browser there.

From my recollection, looking into going fully linux, before I realized gaming would make me want my main system to always be Windows, PSTs used to not even be convertible to TB's format. You had to go PST -> Windows Mail -> TB.

Things may have changed.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » October 26, 2009, 1:28 pm

You can import PST into TB now-a-days, but after giving TB a try I just don't like it. It's too much of a step backwards. I may try Zimbra, but at this point I may just say fuggit and make a Win VM for email.

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » October 26, 2009, 2:18 pm

Evolution didn't seem too bad if you're used to something more full-featured. It's got shell integration.

Siji · Post by **Siji** » October 26, 2009, 4:08 pm

I gave it a shot (was first one I did actually since it came w/Ubuntu), but it crashed every time I tried importing PST's..

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » October 26, 2009, 5:07 pm

I meant standalone. It's more "outlook-like" in operations than Thunderbird, which reminded me more of Microsoft Internet Mail's interface.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » October 26, 2009, 5:47 pm

might I suggest http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=25 since there are people that specifically ignore this one?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » October 26, 2009, 7:37 pm

Your problem might be solved sooner than later.

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs ... ormat.aspx

Siji · Post by **Siji** » October 26, 2009, 7:55 pm

Boogahz wrote:might I suggest http://www.veeshanvault.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=25 since there are people that specifically ignore this one?

Wow, I didn't even notice that this was in CE. No idea how it got here honestly. Be nice if someone could move it.

Thanks

Post by **Sylvus** » October 27, 2009, 11:12 am

Your wish is my command.

Ashur · Post by **Ashur** » October 27, 2009, 12:16 pm

Animalor wrote:Your problem might be solved sooner than later.

http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs ... ormat.aspx

About time.

VeeshanVault

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