Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > Like Anthony, I do use Windows on the desktop myself.
Well, that says it all, doesn't it? > But not exclusively. If you had only one computer that could boot only one OS, which would it be? > And, much more importantly, I will readily admit that I haven't > switched over not because I'm claiming I can't, I haven't switched > over because of laziness. What's lazy about sticking with something that works? > In my case I unfortunately decided it might be a good thing to use a > Microsoft client mail program to handle e-mail. This was a decade ago. > I now have around ten thousand archived e-mail messages accumulated in > a massive *.pst file that I really want to keep - not because I want > to look at all of them again some day, but because from time to time I > have to go digging around in that archive looking for some specific > piece from some specific person - sometimes these messages might be > 5-6 years old. Many e-mail programs can import messages from Outlook and/or Outlook Express. When I switched to The Bat (mainly to better handle spam and eliminate security issues), I was able to import all messages from Outlook Express without any trouble. > One of these days though when I get some time, that file is going to > get exported so that I can get out of dealing with Outlook. As it is > now, Outlook is barely able to manage the archive, and usually crashes > a couple times a day. And it's such a well written program that when > that happens, something internal to Windows gets jammed up and I have > to do a shutdown and restart. Microsoft likes to put all sorts of system hooks in its products. That's why I've tried to get away from Microsoft applications. I still have a few legacy Microsoft applications that I haven't been able to get rid of, however. All the replacements run on Windows, also. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
