Dear all,
That was a big task and ended happily :)
Let me tell you what I wanted/needed to achieve and how it was done. I
am sure this will be useful for others who are looking for the same to
be achieved. Sorry if this a bit lengthy.
-- Outlook to TB! --
That was the main goal we wanted to fulfill. The client had an initial
wish that could not be solved with Outlook. After installing TB! I
only configured it as IMAP as the POP mail base was not yet
transferred to TB!.
Step One was to convert the PSD file into a more common file format
where all, including Arabic Characters and Attachments, are properly
converted. The first progi I tried was "Outlook Export Wizard". The
result was not very promising and my AVIRA always complained the EXE
being a Troyan. Then I tried "Aid4Mails". First I wanted to locally
convert and store the eMails. But that I kind of was unsuccessful. I
must mention that the user had 1'200 Folders and 13'000 eMails in the
3,5 GB PSD file. So I had to take care that the folder structure was
maintained and all eMails would go into them. When the local
conversion failed I tried as a last step the IMAP upload. Prior to
that there was a suggestion on the TB!beta list to do so. The upload
was successful but it took me 30 hr for that task.
Now I had on gMail server the full Folder Structure including all
eMails in them. A request by the user was that he wanted all eMails
locally stored (POP) as he had it with Outlook. Further he is
constantly working on 2-3 different computers. In the past we faced
the problem that he maintained 3 different eMail bases and had great
difficulties finding his eMails. Based on that experience and
requirements I decided to setup his main computer as POP and all other
as IMAP.
Because of that I now was in need to be able in downloading all eMails
from gMail server to the local HD and preserving folder structure.
With your help I found "IMAPsize". That's a cool little app that
access your eMail server and makes a copy as is to your local HD. BTW
- 5 GB took me about 16 hr. This was an easy step to go for.
The last mile proved to be the most challenging. With the help of
IMAPsize all eMails where in each folder stored as .EML file. Now how
to get those converted into TB! TBB/TBN files? After longer searching
and discussing it was Raymund from this list who kindly helped me in
writing a little program - "IMAPsize2TB!" (nice would be "eml2TB!") -
that could do exactly this. We needed a bit time to adjust but at the
end of the day it was ready to be used. So I was set to run the life
task and configure my clients TB!.
Today I finished the task. I haven't lost any eMail.
A note on POP vs IMAP. I know we could discuss ages on If and Yes POP
should be used vs IMAP or If you use IMAP if it makes sense using POP
to. Very personally I like to have my eMails locally stored as you
never know of once day you may not have Internet and you still want to
search and prepare eMails. Most of all it was the wish of the user
that he wants (like under Outlook) to have all his eMails locally
stored. But on the other hand, we all wanted to avoid the mess of some
years before in maintaining different eMail bases.
Thanks to all of you and thanks Raymund for eml2TB :) for all the
support in this project.
--
best regards | Using The Bat! 5.0.36.5 (BETA)
Eddie | on Windows 7 6.1
| Build 7601 Service Pack 1
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