Evolution and Outlook coexistence

Ard ard at snarfy.nl
Wed Feb 11 11:24:35 UTC 2004


On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:09:51 -0500
"Javier Perez" <pepebuho at pananet.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I wanted to get a feeling for this before plunging in a wild chase.
> 
> I am moving myself from Windows into Linux. I have a system setup
> with Outlook 2000 and another lab system setup with Linux and Evolution.
> I really liked evolution.
> 
> I want to work out with both e-mail programs, but keep the same
> database of e-mails. I do not mind spliting the contacts and 
> Agenda stuff, but I want to keep my sequence of e-mails.
> 
> I thought of setting up a mail server and have the e-mail
> server pickup my e-mail from my ISP and have evolution and 
> outlook look at the e-mail at my mailserver 
> (leave message on server option activated). 
> 
> In theory I should be able to look at the e-mail from either
> Outlook or Evo while keeping the e-mail messages together in one place.
> 
> Am I missing something here, regarding the functionality of the 
> mailservers in general? Is there any easy to setup and administer
> mailserver program? I only need it to deal with one user, me.
> 
> I apreciate your comments.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Javier
> 
> ------------------------------

Hi,

You might want to have a look at IMAP.
Your mail will be on a server and you can connect to it with any client you like.

Regards,

Ard





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