Re: Synchronising email

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"Daddy Tadpole" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there still no straightforward way of synchronising mail between
machines running Vista (Windows Mail) and XP (Outlook Express)?

I seamlessly do it all the time. I use a imap server on Linux. So no mater
if I use SquirrelMail, XP or Vista (arg), Linux, Solaris or Mac I can get
the mail syncronized. I even think my phone can but haven'y actually tried
it. No upgrade or downgrade issues as I use 100% open standards for this
kind of stuff. Totally painless actually.

The method I use is well thought out and haven't had to change a thing in so
many years I can't remeber when. It has been around for a long time.

Do M$ always expect us to update *all* our computers to their latest
ephemeral OS?

Yep. Hazards of proprietary non-standard stuff like Vista/MS-Windows. Part
of the part and parcel of the Microsoft tred mill.

It would obviously be stupid to ask whether the promised next one will be
any better in this respect.

I would not count on it being any different. It is also why I use
OpenOffice too. www.openoffice.org This way be I on a Linux or XP system I
get the same look and feel with an open standard file format, no conversions
even required. Saves a bundle in both time and money.

Sorry, Microsoft neither supports nor has a standard IMAP server. This is
available only on open systems like Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, FreeBSD and other POSIX standard systems. A link to get started,
if you are new, get an old PC and run Ubuntu and load in IMAP.

http://linuxgazette.net/issue35/jao.html

BTW, once you have it running, you can drag and drop your messages in
propriety format up to the IMAP server and it will convert them on the way
up. Then it will be visible with anything IMAP using that server. Even
works if you switch between XP and Vista not just the POSIX systems listed
above.

Don't worry about the hate responses this message will generate. There are
Microsoft Vista Pushers out there that dislike this information from being
disclosed. An inferiority complex if you will.

Ubuntu www.ubuntu.com



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