John Hinsley wrote:
I'd like to switch from Communicator to Celeste. I don't have any problems with multiple ISPs and such.
The problem I do have is simply the huge amount (well, hugeness is relative, currently nudging half a gig and all in standard Netscape 4.7* on *nix format) of stuff I have to transfer over. It can't be as simple as copying all the child directories over, or can it?
Ideas, advice and cries of "don't do it!" welcome.
Cheers
John
I too, would like to switch from Communicator to Celeste.
I use Communicator on WinME (at work, no choice :( ) and at home on Debian Sid with Mozilla 0.95. I tried Ximian's Evolution but just didn't/haven't really liked it.
I have 10s to 100+ mailboxes hierarchically organized. I have close to 600mb and 90,000 messages in mail.
I would love for Celeste to be able to handle that.
It seems to me (maybe incorrectly) that Celeste would need to do similarly to other clients in that the mail file needs to be broken up into multiple files, generally according to the mailbox scheme set up by the user.
In Communicator each mailbox has it's own file and index. I believe Eudora is similar.
I asked my wife the other day what it would take to get her away from Eudora. She's open to such a move but it would have to be reasonably feature equivalent and user friendly. She and my children are currently on Macs.
It would be nice if Celeste had UI choices (skins, chromes, faces, whatever). One of which was similar to the other email clients so that a migration path could be made from Communicator, Outlook, Eudora, etc to Celeste. After migrating and becoming comfortable with Celeste/Squeak then they could possibly if they choose move to a potentially different and more powerful UI.
Being able to import or use standard mbox format mailboxes would be great. I frequently join mailing lists which have either downloadable archives or archives available from the mail server. It would be nice for Celeste to handle that.
For example this mailing list is archived (back to July 01) at: http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/
I look forward to using Celeste and hopefully contributing to it's advancement once I become more Squeak proficient.
Jimmie Houchin