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Morning All,
About 18 months ago I migrated my wife off her Windows XP Pro desktop using Outlook Express to Windows 7 Pro. Outlook Express did everything the wife needed, allowed her a great many mailbox accounts, messaging rules, and the ability to construct tiered folder systems for email organization.
OE6 did all of without the annoyances that the damn default email client provided in W7 did, which was to create individual Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items and Draft folders for each and every mailbox. Totally unnecessary and an asinine to push home power users into business-class products (e.g. Outlook).
So, I painfully migrated the wife's OE6 email accounts, messages and address book to Mozilla Thunderbird. The initial migration was fine and she had one Inbox, one Drafts, one Sent Items and one Deleted items folders, and I constructed the tiered folder system and message rules (rules that never worked).
I imported the messages and sorted them out appropriately, but each new mailbox therein would create anew set of Inbox/Set/Deleted/Draft folders, which is annoying. Also, Thunderbird isn't too bright in realizing that if A, B and C mailboxes are on the same domain then use the same damn SMTP/POP domains (it created individual sets or defaulted to the wrong set for another domain).
Ok, so now I am on the early stages of consideration to buy the wife an iMac for Xmas. This would be primary for her personal use, would replace the W7 Pro on 1st gen i3 desktop, and I am looking at the 27" iMac. Being the husband and slave of the wife in the computing department, I see email migration in the future.
I see the default email client in Lion can import email from Thunderbird, but is this if Thunderbird is locally installed, from an exported file or folder, or both? Also, if it imports Thunderbird email, will it create Inbox/Set/Deleted/Draft folders for each and every mailbox? Wife has multiple mailboxes on the ISP domain, and on two privately owned domains.
I would love to have the following folder structure in the end:
Inbox
Drafts
Deleted Items
Sent Items
Shopping
Nordstom
AT&T
Comcast
Friends
Friend A
Friend B
Friend C
Financial
Banking A
Banking B
Amex
Anyone know if this cam be achieved, with incoming email being autonomously being sorted into folders using rules? How about the intelligence in SMTP/POP defaulting based on mailbox domains?
Sometimes I wonder if I should buy a Mac Mini, test the waters, and see what happens. Maybe buy and try, return, and then if all is well upgrade to a 27" iMac. And this is just the first hill I have to battle up. I then need to research application compatibility with M$ Office, Adobe Photoshop, and find something similar to the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
About 18 months ago I migrated my wife off her Windows XP Pro desktop using Outlook Express to Windows 7 Pro. Outlook Express did everything the wife needed, allowed her a great many mailbox accounts, messaging rules, and the ability to construct tiered folder systems for email organization.
OE6 did all of without the annoyances that the damn default email client provided in W7 did, which was to create individual Inbox, Sent Items, Deleted Items and Draft folders for each and every mailbox. Totally unnecessary and an asinine to push home power users into business-class products (e.g. Outlook).
So, I painfully migrated the wife's OE6 email accounts, messages and address book to Mozilla Thunderbird. The initial migration was fine and she had one Inbox, one Drafts, one Sent Items and one Deleted items folders, and I constructed the tiered folder system and message rules (rules that never worked).
I imported the messages and sorted them out appropriately, but each new mailbox therein would create anew set of Inbox/Set/Deleted/Draft folders, which is annoying. Also, Thunderbird isn't too bright in realizing that if A, B and C mailboxes are on the same domain then use the same damn SMTP/POP domains (it created individual sets or defaulted to the wrong set for another domain).
Ok, so now I am on the early stages of consideration to buy the wife an iMac for Xmas. This would be primary for her personal use, would replace the W7 Pro on 1st gen i3 desktop, and I am looking at the 27" iMac. Being the husband and slave of the wife in the computing department, I see email migration in the future.
I see the default email client in Lion can import email from Thunderbird, but is this if Thunderbird is locally installed, from an exported file or folder, or both? Also, if it imports Thunderbird email, will it create Inbox/Set/Deleted/Draft folders for each and every mailbox? Wife has multiple mailboxes on the ISP domain, and on two privately owned domains.
I would love to have the following folder structure in the end:
Inbox
Drafts
Deleted Items
Sent Items
Shopping
Nordstom
AT&T
Comcast
Friends
Friend A
Friend B
Friend C
Financial
Banking A
Banking B
Amex
Anyone know if this cam be achieved, with incoming email being autonomously being sorted into folders using rules? How about the intelligence in SMTP/POP defaulting based on mailbox domains?
Sometimes I wonder if I should buy a Mac Mini, test the waters, and see what happens. Maybe buy and try, return, and then if all is well upgrade to a 27" iMac. And this is just the first hill I have to battle up. I then need to research application compatibility with M$ Office, Adobe Photoshop, and find something similar to the free Microsoft Security Essentials.
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