I would without any hesitation strongly recommend that any business user have their sysadmin setup email to reside on a Linux machine over anything produced by the geek-wannabe's in Redmond. A typical business dweeb can't find the raw email files anyway.<br>
<br>For long-term use, a generic format that works nicely is maildir for the message storage and IMAPS for accessing it. If absolute security is required, the maildir location can be made as an append-only partition. That would cause issues with people doing routine manual mail archiving and sorting.<br>
<br>For real email storage security, <br>0. DON"T USE ANY MICROSOFT PRODUCTS FOR ANY REASON. EVER!<br>1. Everyone's email get duplicated away from their direct control and offlined to archives immediately (Sarbanes-Oxely [sic] which the White House is immune from using out of gross incompetence and other not so nice terms)<br>
2. Talk to Bob Toxen<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Greg Freemyer <<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
RE: PST files<br>
<br>
Outlook express does not use pst files. It uses DBX files and it can<br>
actually open a RFC-822 e-mail. (Outlook itself cannot do that.)<br>
<br>
As to moving pst files around, I disagree. We move them around; Burn<br>
them to CD; Attach small ones to e-mails; etc. all the time. For<br>
best results you need Outlook to work with a PST, but it is actually<br>
one of the best containers for e-mails I have worked with. Very hard<br>
for the end user to tamper with the underlying e-mail because of the<br>
proprietary structure of the container.<br>
<br>
ie. e-mails are business records and there is a strong business<br>
advantage to having a strong barrier to manipulation inherent in the<br>
way they are maintained. OTOH, I have never tried to after the fact<br>
manipulate a thunderbird e-mail, but the mailbox structure it uses is<br>
very simple so I assume it could easily be done. For this reason I<br>
would hesitate to recommend to a client that they maintain their<br>
business record e-mails within Thunderbird.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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2008/5/6 Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Put thunderbird on the mac first and use it's import function. Now you have<br>
> a mostly) transparent migration process by just relocating the thunderbird<br>
> files to a new machine. Moving pst files is always a bad idea.<br>
><br>
> _USING_ pst files is always a bad idea :-)<br>
><br>
> On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:08 PM, John Mills <<a href="mailto:johnmills@speakeasy.net">johnmills@speakeasy.net</a>> wrote:<br>
> > ALErs -<br>
> ><br>
> > The family iMac is about to move to another life and I need to capture my<br>
> > wife's Outlook Express e-mail files and address book for some other mail<br>
> > reader. If we go with some Linux box for her, what are the mail reader and<br>
> > export/import options for doing this? Does 'thunderbird' have a way to<br>
> > import M$ mail and addresses?<br>
> ><br>
> > TIA.<br>
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> > - Mills<br>
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