Cross Platform Email Client? 43
AndrewRF asks: "I was wondering whether there was a good cross-platform email client that shares a common format for local mail, preferences, address book, filters, etc. files. I split time between a Win32 environment and Linux and collect mail from 3 different POP servers. I frequently find myself needing to boot out of Linux to retrieve a message downloaded by my Windows mail client that is stored in some non-accessible format. I've tried leaving the messages on the mail servers, but it's not as seamless as I would like. What I would really like would be have both platforms share a single, common set of local files. I've looked around, but haven't found anything that does the trick. I suspect that I could do this with Pine, though I'm ideally looking for something more GUIish. "
To my knowledge, there is no such animal, although I wonder if there is a way to do this using external tools and scripts on both ends. Your thoughts?
Thanks!! (Score:1)
As you say, the opening display is not so good, kinda scrunched up to the top of the screen, but there has to be SOME way to fix it !
OE5 -> Windows Messaging .PST (Score:1)
Re:OE5 -> Windows Messaging .PST (Score:1)
Exchange Inbox/Windows Messaging and their commercial clients, Exchange 4/5 Outlook97/98/2000 all use the same file format
This LinuxWorld article may be helpful (Score:1)
Joe converted from Eudora to KMail simply by copying the Eudora mail files to his unix partition and pointing KMail at them. I would imaging sharing the mail database would work quite well.
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OE converter? (Score:1)
If you have a box for a server try atdot (Score:1)
What I do... (Score:1)
Crude, but effective.
darrem
Re:IMAP is the only way (Score:1)
cross platform email and such (Score:1)
Netscape will(?) (Score:1)
Re:IMAP on Outlook Exp. broken, use MUTT (Score:1)
Re:Exchange Client for Linux???? (Score:1)
Exchange Client for Linux???? (Score:1)
IMAP (Score:2)
I dont know if that helps you. It might be a little off-topic (since you asked for a client), but using IMAP is the solution I use. I also use procmail to sort my mail into folders on the server.
Leaving messages on mail server... (Score:1)
I use Windows NT at work and for personal mail, I am using Outlook Express and have the following settings turned "on":
Leave a copy of message on server
Remove from server when deleting from "Deleted Items"
This way I can keep up with messages during the day. If there's a message I want to read later on at home, I can either mark it as "unread" or *not* delete it from my "Deleted Items" folder. When I go home and check mail, it shows up as a new message.
I don't know if this helps, but it's an idea. As for your mail clients, Netscape's mail client has similar settings (I think). I have Netscape's browser-only here at work.
On a side note, though somewhat related, I accidently left Outlook Express open at work. It was checking for mail every 15 minutes or so. When I was at home getting mail, NONE of them were showing up as "N" in Mutt!! I checked and double-checked my settings in .muttrc many times trying to figure that out! Since they'd already be retrieved, but not removed from my mail server, they were not considered "New".
Re:Leaving messages on mail server... (Score:1)
Netscape can only fetch mail from (1) POP server. Hmmm, set up fetchmail on the *Nix box and then set Netscape up to read local mail. There, will that do it ??
Dare I say it, Outlook Express supports multiple POP servers. Why doesn't Netscape ?? Will Mozilla ??
elm ? (Score:1)
I'm posting to ask if anyone has any pointer to any "authoritative" elm sites ? Elm development seems to be badly fragmented, and things like MIME support and PGP support are kind of hit-or-miss.
Re:Leaving messages on mail server... (Score:1)
I've found Outlook Express that comes with IE5.0 is a really nice client. I can have it pull mail from several different POP3 accounts. When replying it has the ability to let you choose what email you're sending from (unlike in Netscape which makes you change it, close, restart) on the fly. You can also set it up so that any email aliases you have are also included in the From list, but can set it so they aren't checked for mail. I like it, even if it is M$...
I know it won't work under different OS's, but if you have one station that always runs win9x/NT, you can use it on there.
Re:Leaving messages on mail server... (Score:1)
I started using it way-back-when because out of the box it could handle HTML. There is a ton about it that I don't like, so every six months or so I get frustrated about something and go look at the others, but I always conclude that this one sucks less than eudora, less than outlook, less than outlook express, less than postilion, less than emacs... I think that's what I've looked at.
I've done the interesting cross-platform things like copy the mailfolders, address books, bookmarks, etc. back and forth and it has worked well whenever I've done it. YMMV because "they" do have a tendency to keep changing the way it works and one never knows when they'll break it.
I've used it in POP3, POP3 "leave on server" and IMAP modes. I would recomment IMAP if your server has it available. It can be confusing to configure (no, I don't want to treat all of my .dotfiles as mailfolders, why are you asking?), but once you get it to work it works the same every day after that.
Perhaps if I get time I'll post more about how I configure it and how I wish I could configure it. One final note: the very latest version silently turned off Emacs-keys but the release notes did mention it and I was able to get them back by ditching the new /usr/X11/blahblahblah/Netscape appdefaults.
IMAP is the only way (Score:1)
I tried netscape on Unix, but it crashes when I use it with IMAP. Also, IMAP is way better than POP, even when POP supports leaving the mail on the server.
I heard that vm on emacs support IMAP, and so does mutt. I haven't tried them though.
Communicator can (sorta) (Score:2)
I used to keep my mail shared and do this before I finally kicked the Windows habit alltogether.
-te
Re:IMAP is the only way (Score:1)
The version of Outlook Express that I tested created a
Your Netscape is crashing on Unix due to library inconsistencies. Fix your Unix box (which really sounds like a Linux box--not the same thing) and use Communicator. IMAP is definitely the way, but MS needs to get their act together.
Netscape (Score:1)
Re:IMAP is the only way (Score:1)
I find it very unlikely that a protocol NOOP command actually executes the NOOP CPU instruction.
IMAP and a little Linux server (Score:1)
Re: Cross Platform Email Client? (Score:1)
Re:Exchange Client for Linux???? (Score:1)
Re:IMAP is the only way (Score:1)
So which IMAP client do you suggest for Windows?
Thanks,
ccg
Re:YES: Outlook/Pine/RFC822 Conversion (Score:1)
J Street Mailer from Innoval. It's free. (Score:1)
Mail Client Review (Score:1)
Why a GUI Preference? (Score:1)
Plus I like the ease of archiving mail in Pine using Mbox format boxes and just BZipping them and moving them off-line as I see fit.