[Malvern] FW: Linux Migration - Mail Clients

[Richard Forster]

NTFS
Reading is stable and has been for a long time. Writing is 'not 
recommended' last time I heard. Note that the kernel dev team apply 
insane degrees of filesystem integrity paranoia before they declare 
something to be 'stable'. I know I've read and written to NTFS without 
problems many times.

.pst files
I don't know if it is still true but the situation used to be that no 
you couldn't read them directly. What you could do instead though was 
install Thunderbird on the windows box and import all the emails. Then 
take (or export, as appropriate) the Thunderbird mbox files straight 
over to linux and import those into Evolution. This has worked for me in 
the past. I've also been bitten by having very large pst files and 
running out of space doing the import but that was when I had 2GB 
partitions on a 9GB drive when I was at HP.

Cheers

Rick



Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I was trying to work out why I hadn't seen my postings - I sent it from the
> wrong mailbox!  I didn't realise that incoming mail was validated thusly.
> Anyway heres the first of 2 earlier postings
> 
> Ian
> 
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From: 	Ian Pascoe [mailto:softy.lofty.ilp at btinternet.com] 
>> Sent:	26 September 2006 19:11
>> To:	Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk; Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> Subject:	Linux Migration - Mail Clients
>>
>> Guys
>>
>> I seem to remember a discussion some time ago around the problems Linux
>> had accessing drives formatted to NTFS - has this been resolved?
>>
>> Secondly, are there any Linux mail clients that can access directly
>> Outlooks Data Files (.pst)?  I only ask as any mails I want to keep I move
>> out of the live Inbox into one of these Data Storage files.  From my point
>> of view Evolution is the preferred mail client, due to it's accessability
>> enhancements.
>>
>> Phil, what was the meet time for next Tuesday - I know discussions were
>> made around availability of parking but I can't remember what the upshot
>> of it all was.
>>
>> Can I also ask the group to crash my PC!  If I bring it around to Geoff's
>> next time can you help me by loading up the accessability version of
>> Ubunto?  What would you want me to do prior to this <gulp> task?  I
>> already have an unformatted 20Gb partition waiting.
>>
>> Ian
>>
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