[Gllug] RedHat

[Mike Brodbelt]

"Jackson, Harry" wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tet at accucard.com [mailto:tet at accucard.com]
> >
> >
> > >> How can I read my Outlook mail using this (to which I have no idea)
> > >
> > >An MS exchange server will do POP and IMAP so pretty much any mail
> > >client can be made to work with it.
> >
> > Remember not all Outlook users are using Exchange. And the
> > question was
> > almost certainly "how can I run Outlook on this" rather than "how can
> > I replace Outlook on this".
> 
> The actual question I got asked was "can I read my pst files with that". The
> guy who asked me burns all his mail onto cd,s and has got the last five
> years of work and email backed up this way.

One way to do this is to set up an IMAP account, and then have Outlook
look at both that, and the local PST file. You can then drag and drop
mail to move it out of the PST onto the IMAP account. Once it's on an
IMAP server, you can easily access it and re-archive it from the Linux
side of things.

> He is also the one who first
> asked me about Linux because he does not want to pay for Windows anymore.
> Believe it or not I did not prompt the bloke he is just genuinely fed up
> with it and is looking at alternatives. He asked me if I would recommend
> migrating straight to it and I had to say no, this had more to do with the
> fact that he has been conditioned into Windows and would find that it would
> probably be to steep a learning curve to move completely.

If you set him up with GNOME, Evolution for mail, StarOffice 6, and a
nice desktop, he might find it less of a learning curve than you think.
You'd probably spend 3 months anwering all his questions though, until
he got the hang of the system himself....

Mike.

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