Richard Creighton wrote: t her contacts and message base from PMMail to
Thunderbird. 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. So, the question is, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to best proceed? What I have done so far so her club mail list doesn't have to shut down is to set up VirtualBox and load WinXP into it and imported PMMail into that virtual machine which then runs PMMail under a virtual machine under Linux. This allows her to do her mailings from PMMail within XP on the Linux machine BUT I want an integrated solution so she doesn't have to remember where she did what. Eventually I want to extract the information out of her mailer and put it into OpenOffice Base where she can really use the database functions to manipulate the information the way it should be handled. Mailers may facilitate collections, but they aren't DataBase engines.
What formats can PMMail use for exporting contacts? Thunderbird can import a few different formats.
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. Thanks in advance to all....
What's she using on Windows? Is there hardware on the computer that can read caller ID? -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org