[kwlug-disc] Another reason why I love Linux

[CrankyOldBugger]

With all of the tech support emails we get in this mailing list I thought
you guys might like a positive story for a change...

I'm in the middle of prepping one of my systems for the 14.10 release next
week and was reminded of yet another Reason Why I Love Linux..

For many years, as a Windows guy, I breathed, slept and ate inside of MS
Outlook.  I had it in my Startup group for many years.  I used all of the
aspects of it: email, RSS reader, calendar, you name it.

One of the great features of Outlook was that I could have several email
accounts in it, but I could take emails from any account and move them into
the appropriate storage cabinet folders in one main account.  In other
words, I could take the emails I get from KWLUG (addressed to my gmail.com
account) and store them long term in my live.ca account's folders.  Same
for my other email addresses.  This allowed me to keep all of my emails,
regardless of which account they were sent to, in one "master" archive
folder structure.  This in turn makes it easy to organize all of my emails
by sender or topic.

In other words, I can take a KWLUG email from my gmail account, move it to
the "Linux" folder under my live.ca account, and it will show up in my web
browser under my MS live login, alongside emails about Linux that were sent
to my other email accounts.

And it worked great, unless Outlook 2013 came out.  Microsoft removed the
ability to move emails from one account to another.  Apparently they moved
to a different engine for some other feature and subsequently broke this
feature.  Now I have emails scattered to hell and back and no good way to
organize them.

In come Thunderbird to the rescue.  Not only does it allow me to move
emails between accounts, but I found that it has far better archive
capabilities (with the right add-ons) than Outlook ever had.  So now I can
organize my emails the way _I_ want, not the way that Microsoft thinks is
popular this week.  And, thanks to various add-ons, I can spin emails out
to disk for offline storage by age, topic, sender, etc.

So about a month ago I spent a good two days re-organizing my emails in
T-Bird, across multiple accounts, then spinning old or irrelevant emails
out to an old server for long-term storage.

Jeff, who will NOT be doing a presentation on this!
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