[Gllug] RedHat

[mike]

On Thu, 2001-11-01 at 14:22, 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

Short answer no
Proper answer - sooner or later his pst files will corupt leaving all his 
mail unreadable - so convert to mbox and he will have safe archive and very 
readable in the one true OS




> 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. 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.
> 
> Harry 
> 
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