On 08/03/09 23:24, clipka wrote:
> Turned out that migrating my old e-mails archive and address book wasn't
> as straightforward as I had hoped (how stupid is this: You can't import
> from Outlook .pst files unless Outlook is installed); fortunately, my

	The last time I used Outlook (Express) was way too long ago. Reading 
your post, I can tell they didn't really improve it much. Perhaps they 
even made it worse, as in those days you could read newsgroups with it 
(or so I recall).

	As for your complaint, sorry: No sympathies. Of all the mail readers 
I've used, Outlook was the *only* one that did not use a standard format 
for storing emails. There's simply no excuse for it, and over the years 
I've had to "help" many people who wanted to switch to another client 
and wanted to transfer their emails.

	Not all clients support import from Outlook (and why should they? 
Almost all mail readers store email using open formats). The simplest 
solution if they had IMAP and not too much email was to put all the 
email on the server, and redownload it using the new client.

	The "other" solution was to install TB, have it import it, and then 
just take the files from TB, which, like almost all mail readers, stores 
stuff in a sane format.

> (Next thing on the agenda: Replace IE with Firefox...?)

	(Vomits).

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