On 08/30/2010 04:10 PM, James wrote:
OK, so I/m ready to move a few users from the mail client in Seamonkey
to a new mail client package. Thunderbird looks reasonable, runs on Winblows
and Linux and is not tied to a given desktop platform. I did
read bugzilla about enigmail not working with the latest
thunderbird: Bug 301114. ;-) Is there a better(alternative) way
to use encryption with thunderbird?
Enigmail works great, if installed via usual extension mechanism. It's
just, that the user (or you for them) has to do it once...
In general, I like the way the
mozilla mail systems work, but, I want something, easy
to admin (users do email backups), easy to migrate
from seamonkey, and able to run on Winblows or Linux.
A nice system wide backup strategy with around 2 dozen
thunderbird clients, is also part of the strategy. So
first users try to retrieve their lost emails, then
ask an admin.. I like a separate backup system for email
not part of the regular backup system.
TB3 brings archive support. I don't know if that is what you need, but
see for yourself:
http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Archived+messages
I prefer having all mails stored on the server (used with IMAP) and
backing that up. Most users I know just forget to make backups/archives.
Of course if they need a lost mail - you're right - it's work for us :(
I think dovecot-imap has an automated archiving mechanism too...
Bye,
Daniel
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