Thank you :)

Hi Folks,

 It's been a looooong time since I played with pegasus and I've never played with mercury before.  And here's the situation I'm testing...

1 computer with various email clients installed (thunderbird & outlook) and various datastores/mailbox files for outlook express and eudora.

What I'm looking to accomplish here is getting everything into 1 system.

Can I install Mercury (set up for imap) on the same machine as tb, outlook, oe, pmail, etc so that I can just log in and "upload my mail" and then download it back all organized and in 1 application?

Or do I need to actually install mercury on a different computer on my network?

 At the moment while I do this reorg on my personal machine, I'm NOT planning on using mercury to handle internet email - but that will most likely be happening within the next few months for at least 1 organization I volunteer with.

Thanks in advance,

John

PS - along these same lines can I have the mercury data files/mail storage stored on 1 drive while the program is installed on another?  Along the lines of using 2 boot partitions (windows 7 and XP) that I can switch between and have mercury installed on both.  Then I can "bounce" between partitions and be able to access all my mail.

JS

You can install it and do it all on one computer but I don't know if it will really accomplish what you want.

Which client do you want to end up using?

Final solution: Well, at this moment it will likely be pmail & outlook

As for accomplishing what I'm looking for...if I have (for instance) outlook express connect to a mercury server using imap then I should be able to "archive" the mail from my local storage onto the server.  With the advantage that all attachments headers etc stay intact.

Then, when I connect using pmail, it should be able to download those messages and folders just fine.

 If mercury can't handle that then it won't work for the charity I work with either...since they will need access to their old emails

>  At the moment while I do this reorg on my personal machine, I'm NOT
> planning on using mercury to handle internet email - but that will
> most likely be happening within the next few months for at least 1
> organization I volunteer with.

Should work just fine.   I use Windows Live, Outlook, OE, Thunderbird, Pegasus Mail Squirrel Mail among others to access mail via Mercury IMAP4 server MercuryI.  I also use MercuryD to download the mail from various POP3 accounts.

Mercury can be installed on the same system as the mail clients.