shanenin Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) I currently have outlook installed on my laptop. I use this for my business contacts, reminders, and email client. My main reason for using outlook was to learn. I figured it would be good to know the program, since I would be diagnosing and fixing peoples computers that have it installed.Here is my problem. everytime I want to send a business email, or look up a contact, I need to do it from my laptop. This way it keeps all of my emails and contacts in one spot(laptop). Here is what I would like to do. Set up a mysql server on one of my computers that is on all of the time. I would then like to switch to thunderbird(away from outlook) on all of my computers, both linux and windows. Ideally I could use thundrbird from any of my computers, but have all of my data in one place, which would be the mysql server. Can this be done?edit added later//for some crazy reason, I thought thunderbird was more full featured like outlook. I mean I thouhgt it kept business contacts and also had a calander and could set appointments. I would still like to use thunderbird as a cross platform way to keep all of my emails together(on a server)edit again//I found the place to add contacts to thunderbird. As far as I can tell, you are not able to make a todo list, or other calender related stuff Edited February 20, 2006 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Yeah, thunderbird is not as full featured as Outlook. Suse used to ship with Evolution which is a full-featured client. Maybe you can find an evolution download somewhere.You could always upload all of your Outlook contacts from your laptop to your Gmail account and have gmail notify you or forward your mail. That's not probably what you want. I've never done it, but, maybe set-up your e-mail clients for IMAP; have all e-mail in one place and not downloaded to your different computers. Maybe your ISP will allow you to set-up your e-mail clients for IMAP. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks for the suggestions. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks for the suggestions.I use evolution, It even connects to my works exchange server I can send you a how to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 I do not have an exchange server. That is why I need a client that runs on both windows and linux, that can use a common database. I am probably just dreaming :-) After some googling, it does not apear thunderbird works with any database(like mysql) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hitest Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks for the suggestions.You're very welcome! Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 (edited) FYI: There is a calendar extension for Firefox/Thunderbird/Seamonkey. It's also available as a standalone application as Sunbird. Edited February 20, 2006 by jcl Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pierce Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 You could try thinking about imap...But you could also leave a copy of the messages on the pop3 server, not the best solution, but it works.Pierce Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Thanks guys, imap seems to be what I need. I am not really sure how it works. Is the following correct. I would download all of my messages from my godaddy account using pop3(I think that is all they offer) to my imap server. Once they are in my imap server I could use any imap capable client to access them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jcl Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 Correct. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 any suggestion on an imap server to use? I would prefer to run it on linux. I am looking for sonething simple, if that is possible. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 qmail with courier-imapgentoo how-to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xmlfor other linux distro or to answer more questions..http://www.qmailrocks.org/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 does an imap server need to work in conjunction with a mail server? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iccaros Posted February 21, 2006 Report Share Posted February 21, 2006 does an imap server need to work in conjunction with a mail server?sorry can't help it..IMAPA standard protocol for accessing e-mail from a local server.Also called: Internet Messaging Access Protocol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted February 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 does an imap server need to work in conjunction with a mail server?sorry can't help it..IMAPA standard protocol for accessing e-mail from a local server.Also called: Internet Messaging Access ProtocolThats ok, I need to be told to RTFM on occasion :-)local server must be referring to an email server, so yes they need to work together. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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