If it is a POP3 server, your messages have probably been
downloaded to your local client. To keep your old messages, you need to somehow
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bring your current mail folders over to your new client, which is a potentially tricky
undertaking.
Address book??”You need to export your current address book to a format that can be
read by your new e-mail client, and import it to your new e-mail client.
To transition to Linux, you may want to add a cross-platform e-mail client such as Thunderbird to
your Windows system so that you can get at your resources (addresses, stored mail messages,
and so on) during the transition to your new mail client. When you eventually move off Windows
altogether, Thunderbird for Linux will work almost exactly as it does in Windows.
If your current e-mail server is a Microsoft Exchange server (2000 or 2003), you need to get a
Ximian Connector for Microsoft Exchange license to allow Evolution to access information from
that server. The connector now comes from Novell, which purchased Ximian, and is available
under an open source license.
Getting Started with E-Mail
Most Linux systems include an e-mail client that you can select on a panel or by left-clicking on
the desktop to bring up a menu.
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