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Neeum Zawan schrieb:
> 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).
>
Outlook and Outlook Express are whole different beasts. The only thing
they have in common is that "Outlook" in the name.
> Not all clients support import from Outlook (and why should they?
> Almost all mail readers store email using open formats).
Well, I always suspected they might, perhaps, want me to use their
product. That, however, includes me leaving my old e-mail app behind;
if there's a clean path to make sure I don't have to leave all the
e-mails behind as well, that makes it a lot easier.
(Then again, maybe my initial axiom is a misconception already, and they
just write those programs for the fun of it; in that case, sure - why
should an e-mail client - even a "big player" - be able to import from
competitors' products. To the contrary: After all, isn't it the Outlook
users' fault that they're not using something better anyway? So let them
stay in suffering. Yeah, they don't deserve otherwise... that'll teach
them a lesson... :-( / ;-) / :-P)
> 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.
Does this preserve information such as message timestamps?
>> (Next thing on the agenda: Replace IE with Firefox...?)
>
> (Vomits).
>
Why? Firefox no good either??? Or did you just have something bad for lunch?
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