[ale] email question

[Mark Wright]

Hi Frederick,

Yes the link Paul Cartwright  sent might be the best solution.

Jerald Sheets suggested using Gmail as an imap server and poping  
other accounts to it for sorting and storage.  Thats probably what I  
should do.  Jerald what do you do for peace of mind if Google goes  
out of business?  Did I just write that?  Well stranger things....


Mark Wright
m.perry.wright at gmail.com



On Aug 5, 2010, at 9:52 AM, Frederick N. Brier wrote:

> One of the other posts, had a link to an ehow.com article.  Looking  
> there, I found how this one:
>
> http://www.ehow.com/how_6686406_sync-mac-address-book-thunderbird.html
>
> It seems to show how to Thunderbird installed on a Mac would import  
> all your contacts.  Then you could copy the Thunderbird files over  
> from the Mac to your Ubuntu.  I did that with Windows->Linux a few  
> years ago and it worked fine.
>
> This next idea is just a guess since I do not have a Mac, but is  
> there a way to export your Mac address book to LDAP?  You could set  
> up an LDAP server on your Ubuntu or other box.  Point your Mac at  
> the LDAP.  That might set up (visually) another address book in Mac  
> Mail.  That is what Evolution does.  You might then be able to get  
> the drag and drop, or even copy to work, between the two address  
> books.  Potentially, this would allow you to share your address book.
>
> Finally, a number of my friends have just moved their mail (and  
> address book) to Google Mail.
>
> Fred
>
> On 08/05/2010 08:29 AM, Mark Wright wrote:
>>
>> I am wondering if there is any practical answer to my dilemma.  I  
>> have spent a lot of time over the last several years setting up  
>> various filters and folders to organize five different email  
>> accounts on my once shiny new Mac powerbook.  Now that it is old  
>> and slow I am wishing I had found a more portable solution to  
>> customizing apples' Mail.
>>
>> I'd like to find a reasonable way to move all my settings in Mail  
>> to thunderbird on my Ubuntu desktop.  Right now all I can think of  
>> is to write down all the rules I have set up and print my address  
>> book then manually type it all into thunderbirds config.  Any  
>> other ideas?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Mark Wright
>> m.perry.wright at gmail.com
>>
>
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