Re: [Evolution] Imorting wizard

["Alfred JILKA" <alfred jilka geologie ac at>]

Spam is not my big problem. Most of it is filtered by a separate server which sits even before 
our mailserver (RedHat 3.5 with Symantec's mailfilter) and it does a remakable job. 
However I get about 200 mails per day from users calling for help, 3 mailing lists, various 
servers, printers and other systems talking about their status. These need to be filtered into 
their respective folders. This is where thunderbirds weakness to filter correctly strikes.
Until now, Pegasus Mail was perfect for this job (at the moment I use 76 filtering rules for 
incoming mail to be sorted into 57 folders and about a dozen others for opening/closing 
folders), but our management forces us to use outlook or something comparable (for 
example evolution) as there will be a public calendar, lists of contacts (most probably per 
department a public one) and so on. Thus TB is ruled out - more or less.

Alfred

> 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--
> > > >      Geologische Bundesanstalt / Geological Survey of Austria
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> > > > Alfred JILKA                   Phone:            +43/(0)1/712-56-74
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> > > >
> > > >
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