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[Kim Leyendecker <kdl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Am 26.08.2011 08:17, schrieb Per Jessen:
> George OLson wrote:
>
> > > Hey to all,
> > >
> > > I am just looking for opinions from people that have used these
> > > programs, and how you might compare them. I am using thunderbird right
> > > now, but I find it very difficult to configure the GUI fonts. At the
> > > same time, I really like the ability to keep messages from the same
> > > thread together in my inbox or other folders, and thunderbird is far
> > > superior to outlook's handling of this.
> > >
> > > I am migrating over from MS Outlook, and would like to import all my
> > > old email, besides my calendar, tasks, and address book. I started
> > > using thunderbird only because I am moderately familiar with it.
> > >
> > > Any advice, and info on common problems you may have encountered,
> > > would be most helpful.
> I use Thunderbird for private and business email.  I don't recognise
> your issue wrt fonts - I don't think I've ever fiddled with fonts in
> Thunderbird.  
> I've never used Outlook myself, but I have occasionally helped a
> customer migrate away. AFAIR, you're likely to only be able to import
> old email.  Even for that, you'll need to lok for third-party utilities
> as the PST format, is not, to my knowledge, publicly available. 
>
> Calendar - I use Lightning, works very well for my needs.
>
> Somebody mentioned TB crashing - well, it doesn't on my system. 

me too. I love using Thunderbird, and my adventure with Evolution ends
up in a comeback to Thunderbird.

I like it because there so many add-ons for it and the handling is
really intuitive and easy to handle.

And yes, I like the filter-functions.

Kontact? Well, I use it for my calendar but for e-mail... well I´m just
to happy with Thunderbird and never change a running system .. ehm..
mailreader! ;-)

AFAIK there isn´t any _good_ option for migration from MS Outlook on
both Kontact and Evolution (correct me if I´m wrong!), and Thunderbird
is the most Outlook-like e-mailreader I know (Apart from using
Outlook/Windows Live Mail/Windows Mail in Wine...)

So, I would suggest you to give the other mail readers a fair chance.
Install them, test them, create your own opinion about it and post it
here. That´s the way I would do it. And, quite frankly, it´s a good
thing to do when it´s raining dogs and cats and you don´t know what to next.

good luck!
may the mail readers be with you! ;-)
                
                -kdl

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