Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2008-05-06 at 08:16 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
She is like me and old computer parts. She doesn't throw *anything* away :) Seriously, she compiles a good percentage of the messages she receives and extracts the information and organizes it by year and puts it into folders. PMMail makes this pretty easy for her and so will Thunderbird and with the additional features like the Calendar and task manager add-ons in TB, it is a dream come true for her. BUT, there is the problem of saving all of that data from PM and getting it into TB.
The mail is easy: create a local imap server, and export all old mail to it from the virtual machine. Then import all that mail it TB, or just leave it there. The addresses... dunno.
My problem is that I have not been able to find a way to make PM mail EXPORT anything. It has an import function from Outlook but no export function I can find. I have found that KMail can read the raw messages but NONE of the organization (folders, subfolders, etc) and only 1 message at a time as each message is a separate file and all of the messages and folders and sub folders are separate directories in PM Mail. The contacts list, which is is as, or more important than the messages themselves (thousands) are in yet another directory (which I discovered by accident called TOOLS <go figure>) and in multiple files within that directory with an extention of *.db and *.act and *.add and a few others. It looks like some kind of database. The messages are all files with wierd file names with random alpha-numeric combos that seem to be related to the pointers that I see when I look at the raw data inside of some of the 'tools' files. So, while it looks like I could import the messages as *.MSG type of data, I would totally lose years of organizational imformation about who sent it and when which is in the contacts list which appears to decipher the message file names and assocates the messages with a person.
Now, what does this have to do with CALLER ID you ask :) ... that is my other problem....every time anyone calls, she MANUALLY records the name and number and time in her computer by hand by transcribing from her phone caller-id log. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!!!!! I just can't find it for SuSE. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, so a pointer in the right direction would be appreciated.
Hum!
Hylafax can record in the log the caller ID, but it is not clean: it records many thing more. However, the info can be extracted from there. I played a bit with that some time ago, I suppose I can dig out the info again. If she wants to use the fax too, then it wouldn't be much of a problem to do it this way.
I don't know if there is a simple app that simply logs the caller ID, which is what you really need.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. Does Hylafax use a modem interface of some kind? If so, I am familiar with the concept but it has been a long time since I have used a modem with Linux and am not sure which modems are on the market that would have compatibility with the software you are suggesting.
Thanks for the suggestions. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org