Switching E-Mail Clients regularly is my Hobby!
March 20th, Saturday night, 11:53 PM - It's time to change the E-Mail client. I don't know why but it happens every year. Do you remember Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? However, it's something like this ...
As I woke up this morning I got this feeling: that will be my personal email day 2004. The whole day I was afraid of upcoming pain converting tons of mails from client A back to client B. Do they have a common export/import format? What about the good old German special characters? (Last time I lost them to ³$§%~~ ....) But I had a plan: Last year I tried it via IMAP using account at my ISP. But it crashed and crashed and crashed .. dumb idea to move 2 or 3 GB over the Internet back to my machine. Years before I did it via export and import but this IMAP way seemed to be much efficient. I googled around to find a IMAP server for windows. I took first best download, installed server (don't ask me which software I've installed ...) and connected to from both clients (old and new) AND..... wow - it works! Just installed server from ???, no settings, no readmes.txt - it's running out of the box. (I should take a closer look at this software later, but I guess that's not Exchange because download was only a few MB large ;-)).
Now all emails are moved - All? No - not all! Last folder crashed ... but that's OK, because it's the Darwin Effect cleaning up my emails every year.
How often do you change your email client? (BTW: I'm really glad that time is over when I changed the operating system every year - no joke! :-))