[LUNI] Email Iritations

[Janine Starykowicz]

Have you tried importing your good Thunderbird profile to your home 
laptop?  I don't know if there are Linux to Win issues, check the 
appropriate news.mozilla.org newsgroup.  You'll still need to regularly 
synch them though.  Another option is forward everything to gmail and 
download it from there.  Not sure how that works with sent mail though.

Janine

Demetri Mouratis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've spent a good portion of my workweek configuring email of all 
> things so please forgive this rant and lend a hand if you can.
>
> Like many of you, my company is a Microsoft shop and I'm the "Linux 
> Admin."  We run a hosted Exchange server for corporate email.  For the 
> first year or so, I was getting by with OWA (Outlook Web Access) from 
> my Linux box combined with my BlackBerry, a second email client.
>
> This week, I finally got fed up with the inability to search email and 
> installed Thunderbird on my Linux box.  IMAP on the Exchange server, 
> check.  Right away, I loved it.  Thunderbird was so snappy and 
> elegant. I had some issues getting the company address book but 
> powered my way through the Active Directory integration.  Once I got 
> that sorted I was very happy to have thrown off the shackles of 
> Microsoft and felt great. Score: Demetri 1, Mircosoft 0.
>
> Or so I had thought.  I realized I have a third email client, a 
> company-issued Windows laptop at home, formerly running Outlook.  I 
> need this guy for a Windows-only VPN client for remote access.  I 
> thought, no problem, I'll just install Thunderbird under Windows, 
> everything will be cool, and I'll be done with Outlook forever.  Or so 
> I had thought.
>
> Problem: mailbox synchonization.
>
> My work email client has greatly improved, Thunderbird is slick and no 
> more Outlook Web Access (yeah!).  However, My home email client has 
> now gotten out of sync with work.  I was able to install Thunderbird 
> but my mailbox looks like it did two days ago and doesn't reflect the 
> recent messages at work.  My BlackBerry is still cool as far is it 
> goes but I have never used it for archiving all my old messages 
> instead using it for sending quick emails on the go or reading while 
> afk.  I can't search snet items at work.  My home email has sent items 
> only up until Decembe 2006 where the import from Outlook->Thunderbird 
> barfed.  I've now realized this isssue is inherent in IMAP and how it 
> treats mailboxes versus the (server-side?) handling of 
> Outlook/Exchange.  Score: Demetri 1, Microsoft 2.
>
> I feel as though I've started down the rabbit hole.
>
> Does the above make sense?  Does anyone out there have a similar setup 
> with a better solution?  Have I stated my requirements clearly?  
> Should I start installing a X-Windows environment on my laptop ;-)?
>
> Thanks for listening and any pointers.