On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:45 -0600, Michael Schurter wrote: > Hi Bill, Hello Michael, thanks for the welcome.
> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 12:10 -0600, Bill Turner wrote: > > > When I had finished the initial account setup I went to do an import of > > > the mail already on my system and was, quite frankly, flatly > > > disappointed at the import procedure, or rather the lack of an import > > > procedure. The available options were very disappointing. When I > > > looked into the help, it seemed that a 'manual import' was the only > > > option. > > I'm not sure what you mean by 'manual import.' In Evolution 2.6.3 > there's an 'Import a single file' option which is I'm guessing what > you're referring to. Thunderbird uses the mbox format, so you should be > able to "manually" import your e-mails that way. Far from ideal though, > I agree. That was what I was referring to. IMO the import procedure needs to be re-thought. One of the great things about Linux though. You can communicate directly with the software's authors and expect to get an answer. :) Billy G. doesn't care once the money is in his pocket. What I ended up doing was going to a terminal, running MC, and just copying the entire directory structure to the Evolution directory. To it's credit, when I next opened Evolution it saw all the folders and messages. I still have some dupes though and no easy way to get rid of them that I am aware of. > > Outlook, by sharp contrast, does a pretty good job on the importing. > > Not too sure about the dupe removal but I just recently set it up, for > > testing purposes, and haven't really looked very hard. > > Outlook does in fact have excellent dupe removal. That's one of the few > nice things I can think to say about it. :) Thanks for that clarification. So if Outlook does a good job of that then shouldn't Evolution be the same way? > > Since this is my first post to the list I suppose a bit of personal info > > is in order. I am a disabled Viet Nam Vet and I live in Topeka, KS. I > > am currently using my personal machine as a test machine, trying out > > various Desktop/Server OS's and applications. In the 'not too distant > > future' my brother and I will be opening a Harley-Davidson dealership in > > Indiana. The one thing I know with absolute certainty is that the H-D > > apps are all 'Windows-based' so Windows support is necessary. > > Don't give up too easily. Some specialized apps are old and use > standard Windows programming so they work well under WINE. Newer > specialized apps might be written in Java or .NET which are both > supported in Linux. And finally, many specialized apps are becoming web > based. Always contact IT departments before giving up as well. While > many have no interest in supporting Linux, we have more friends than you > think. ;) 'Giving up' was never an option. :) I have not as yet tried WINE but have heard of it. Contacting the IT department at Harley-Davidson directly was something I had not done yet. Perhaps it's time. Red Hat www.redhat.com has a nice intro to the concept of 'virtualization' basics. I have started looking into using VMWARE, and know that PCLOS has instructions on setting it up for use. Not quite ready to take that step yet though. Still testing things. > > What I need to know I guess is if Evolution is going to be able to well > > and truly replace Outlook, or if I am going to have to use 'cross-over > > office' or something similar and install MS Office on a virtual server? > > I figured this would be the place to ask that. :) > > If you're setting up an office for the first time I don't see why you > would need to import e-mails at all. If you standardize on Evolution > from the beginning this isn't an issue. That's true enough. What I was thinking about was all of those 'friends' we have out there that are forced for whatever reason to use MS apps, whatever they may be. It's a lot easier to get management's attention if you have as close to an 'apples' and 'apples' situation as possible. MS folks are used to living in a 'point and click' world. We really can't expect them to change just to run Linux can we? > Best of luck! > > Michael Schurter Thanks much. Really looking forward to it. :) Bill Turner _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
