Re: [Evolution] Imorting wizard

["Alan D. Wilcox" <alan wilcoxengineering com>]

Alfred,

For several years I've used MailWasher 
http://firetrust.com/firetrustpro.html as a filter for mail ... 
regardless of how I actually picked up the mail (Thunderbird, Outlook, 
etc). It looks at your mail at the server, shows you the list of mail 
waiting - already marked for your approval to delete or retain. If you 
approve the deletes, junk is removed at the mail server, before even 
wasting time downloading to your mail client.

For several days a few months ago a spammer used my email address as his 
address. I got about 3000 bounces a day until the storm passed. 
MailWasher filtered and deleted very well, and my normal mail got 
through ok.

It's available for Win and Linux, but the Win version has more polished UI.

Bottom line: a two-tier solution works for me. M-W takes care of the 
spam, I use any mail client I want. I happen to prefer Thunderbird, at 
least until something better comes up.

Alan

Alfred JILKA wrote:
> I need something to use instead of the possibly upcoming outlook. Therefore I looked at 
> evolution. I already tested with thunderbird, but the filtering mechanism appears to be quite 
> buggy. Filtering is crucial to my job. Manually wading through hundreds of mails every day is 
> just not possible. Therefore the mozilla project has nothing usable to offer.
> Thanks anyway, Alfred
>
>   
> > If you just want mail (i.e. not calendaring, scheduling etc.) I'd
> > recommend Thunderbird. For importing from Eudora, see
> > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_from_Eudora_-_Thunderbird.
> >
> > Note that Qualcomm has passed future development of Eudora to the
> > Mozilla Foundation, and future versions of Eudora will be based on the
> > TB code base. See http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20078
> >
> > poc
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 14:21 +0100, Alfred JILKA wrote:
> >     
> > > Hi all,
> > > As this is my first post to this list, please bear with me, if I ask a (maybe) dumb question:
> > > I need to run XP and looked for a decent mail program. Found evolution 2.6.2 to be 
> > > promising, but importing my old mails does not seem to work. The wizard constantly dies and 
> > > kills evolution alltogether. I try to import from eudora *.mbx files. Running with administrative 
> > > privileges does not seem to change a bit.
> > > Any ideas ?
> > > TIA, Alfred--
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> > >
> > >
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