Consolidating emails
 

Well I've got at least 10 machines all over the house and have my email
scattered about between all of them...
so when I need to find something...it's difficult.

Decided to consolidate all my email onto one machine.

Since I use OE6 on most of the machines I decided to start with that.

Although I managed to get it all sorted out I have to say that Microsoft
has a terrible beyond belief system...in that you cannot export or import
OE6 to OE6 (other than by doing so with a complicated manual process).

Even though , by now I should be used to Microsoft's blunders...
after 7 years of dealing with this stuff...
it's nice to know I can still be amazed at the stupidity of it all.

Well, for the rest of the week I shall see if I can retrieve and merge
my email from my Linux and OS/2 machines...

Oh heck...I even have a BSD machine and some other foolishness around here !

Re: Consolidating emails
 

philo wrote:
> Well I've got at least 10 machines all over the house and have my
> email scattered about between all of them...
> so when I need to find something...it's difficult.
>
> Decided to consolidate all my email onto one machine.
>
> Since I use OE6 on most of the machines I decided to start with that.
>
> Although I managed to get it all sorted out I have to say that
> Microsoft has a terrible beyond belief system...in that you cannot
> export or import OE6 to OE6 (other than by doing so with a
> complicated manual process).
>

OE can drag and drop. Drag the email to a memory stick, put the memory stick
in the other computer, drag the email into that system's OE inbox.

Re: Consolidating emails
 

"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message
news:p-ydnQqRaeJNginYnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@athenet.net...
> Well I've got at least 10 machines all over the house and have my email
> scattered about between all of them...
> so when I need to find something...it's difficult.
>
> Decided to consolidate all my email onto one machine.
>
> Since I use OE6 on most of the machines I decided to start with that.
>
> Although I managed to get it all sorted out I have to say that Microsoft
> has a terrible beyond belief system...in that you cannot export or import
> OE6 to OE6 (other than by doing so with a complicated manual process).
>
> Even though , by now I should be used to Microsoft's blunders...
> after 7 years of dealing with this stuff...
> it's nice to know I can still be amazed at the stupidity of it all.
>
> Well, for the rest of the week I shall see if I can retrieve and merge
> my email from my Linux and OS/2 machines...
>
> Oh heck...I even have a BSD machine and some other foolishness around here
> !
>
>

Anything in this article that would help.
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/pc-m...erring-pc-part

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Regards,
David

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Re: Consolidating emails
 

In news:p-ydnQqRaeJNginYnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@athenet.net,
philo <philo@privacy.net> typed:
>
>
> Oh heck...I even have a BSD machine and some other foolishness around
> here !

One of Noah's, I suppose?

Re: Consolidating emails
 

<snip>
>
> OE can drag and drop. Drag the email to a memory stick, put the memory
stick
> in the other computer, drag the email into that system's OE inbox.
>
>


I don't have a memory stick...but the machines are networked...so
I could have copied them to a shared folder had I been smart enough to think
of that.

I used the .dbx method and it worked...
just a bit of work!

Re: Consolidating emails
 

>
> Anything in this article that would help.
>
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/pc-m...erring-pc-part
>



Thanks for the link...
I did not have too bad of a time transferring the email...
but it was a PITA.
My big complaint was simply that Microsoft has no provisions for simply
exporting
or importing OE to OE...

Re: Consolidating emails
 

"Otter" <konrad@lorenz.net> wrote in message
news:51jdtbF1kiq5jU1@mid.individual.net...
> In news:p-ydnQqRaeJNginYnZ2dnUVZ_tijnZ2d@athenet.net,
> philo <philo@privacy.net> typed:
> >
> >
> > Oh heck...I even have a BSD machine and some other foolishness around
> > here !
>
> One of Noah's, I suppose?
>
>


Yes...the very machine he kept inventory of the animals on.

He never even wiped the HD and it seems there was a big controversy
as what to do with the fish !!!!!