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LeoDavidson

This seems like good news:

Roadmap for Outlook Personal Folders (.pst) Documentation

Once the docs are there I hope someone will write something that lets me move my inbox from Outlook to Windows Live Mail. Smiley

Ray7

Wow.

That's pretty big.

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ManipUni
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You want to move your mail into Windows Live Mail? ...

I think Windows Mail was a better application (although granted it was Outlook Lite). Thunderbird is better than both Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail, although not as good as Outlook (even from a few years ago).

rhm

I wonder if it'll be any more useful than their Word and Excel 'documentation'.

LeoDavidson

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 26th @ 9:55 AM

I used to use Thunderbird but ran into some problems with it, especially with migrating the inbox between machines. Don't know if it's better now. I'd consider trying it again if I had an easy way to get my mail into it.

I switched to Windows Mail briefly but the lack of inline spellchecker was annoying, so then I switched to Outlook.

I've not used Windows Live Mail for more than a few minutes but it looked like it'd do everything I need (except import a .PST file, heh) so I thought it was at least worth a try.

...Oh, turns out there is a PST importer for Thunderbird. I never thougth to look before now. Perhaps I'll give Thunderbird another chance!

PaoloM
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In reply to LeoDavidson

#Oct 26th @ 12:01 PM

Outlook + Hosted Exchange = bliss.

I don't have to worry about local mailboxes anymore, email/contacts/calendar are shared automagically between multiple machines, iPhones and Windows Mobile devices.

Seriously, why would anyone not use this is beyond my understanding.

Bass
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In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 2:00 PM

Wow. I'm in the same exact boat as you except I don't use Outlook or Hosted Exchange, I use Gmail. Smiley

Gmail now supports IMAP as well, but I perfer the web interface versus any fat client.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to Bass

#Oct 26th @ 2:09 PM

My setup is better because it *CAN* do evil Smiley

Bass
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In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 2:10 PM

That's because Microsoft won't share.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 2:00 PM

The *HUGE* cost, maybe?

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 26th @ 2:28 PM

Considering the free copies of Outlook you get with every WM phone and the fact that - since when I subscribed to the pilot 2 years ago - hosted exchange is free... what cost?

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 2:30 PM

Who's hosted exchange is free? Link?

I don't own a WM mobile phone so outlook costs around £120 retail (or a technet subscription).

dahat

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 26th @ 2:48 PM

I’d wager he's referring to the internal MSFT program where you can opt in to free Exchange hosting on some dogfood servers in exchange for feedback and the real possibility of downtime or worse.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to ManipUni

#Oct 26th @ 2:48 PM

exchangelabs.com (now outlook.com). I don't know if they're still free for new subscribers...

And if you don't have a WM phone.. well, you would not fit my scenario, right?

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to dahat

#Oct 26th @ 3:37 PM

I did that before coming at Microsoft, and I registered my domain to point there...

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In reply to PaoloM

#Oct 26th @ 3:37 PM

The Outlook Live beta Connect page says that it's only available to educational institutions enrolled in the live@edu program. Looks like they're not accepting any more individuals into the program (unless they've got another website somewhere that I'm missing).

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to CannotResolveSymbol

#Oct 26th @ 4:29 PM

Damn. Well, scrap the free hosted exchange part Smiley

JoshRoss
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I hope this will let me write something to fix my some PSTs. They seem to get whacky problems and the available PSTs tools from Microsoft leave much to be desired.

contextfree

This could be huge for my work. Our business is based largely around processing PSTs. I'm sure implementing readers/writers from spec will be not for the faint of heart, but it may well be worth delving into since it is a core business area. I've found the existing Office and Exchange docs to be fairly useful on occasion btw, contrary to rhm's post ...