Hello Christopher, Thanks for your message. My comments are inline below. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@gmail.com> To: "GTALUG Talk" <talk@gtalug.org>; "Steve Petrie, P.Eng." <apetrie@aspetrie.net> Sent: Saturday, July 30, 2016 1:06 PM Subject: Re: [GTALUG] Advice -- Building Debian 8 PC To Replace Win XP PC;
Vis a vis the email part, I would think it possible that it should be pretty easy to replicate IMAP locally.
I haven't used this in several years, but have installed and used a system called offlineimap (see http://www.offlineimap.org/) which made it relatively easy to duplicate IMAP repositories on a per user basis.
It needed only a couple lines of configuration per source. And note it is available as a Debian package :-) https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=offlineimap
In my case, I prefer to avoid IMAP and find some more direct way to mass-convert the Outlook Express local email folders on the Win XP PC, over to Thunderbird local email folders on Linux. However, if using IMAP as an intermediary representation, turns out to be a good way to do the email mass-conversion, then the offlineimap system could prove a usefully simple way to get IMAP support for the conversion. I took a quick look at the offlineimap website. Looks like the product is still active, and also that a replacement product project is ongoing. <snip>