Mail Call
From: Gary M. Berg
Subject: Pair systems, Thunderbird
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:10:39 -0400Dan,
The Pair systems email problem should be over; one minute it was working and the next it wasn't. I emailed the support folks and they said they ended up undoing some changes they had done on a back-end server (presumably the one that handles authentication for POP/IMAP/Webmail for domain mailboxes). They also lost the ACC for a while, but it was back too as of about 12:45 PM EDT.
As for Thunderbird, the best bet is to indeed copy the folder that contains everything (your "profile" folder). Then on the new machine you will create a new profile and then drop everything back inside of that. I think this will even preserve all of your account information.
I've played with using Thunderbird for POP3 and IMAP access to my Pair-hosted domain, and it works fairly well. I think that Outlook 2003 is a better email client, especially since it can easily be set to not display embedded links inside of "untrusted" email correspondents. Yes, I know about all the potential security issues in Outlook, but the 2003 version does a fairly good job of reducing those problems to a minimum. It's not fair to compare Outlook 2000 (a 4 year old product) to Thunderbird (which is under very active development) as far as security.
I've been using SpamAssassin on the Pair server to flag my mail as to what looks like spam. With a good whitelist on Pair, and a similar whitelist in Outlook 2003, I probably see about 99% accurate filtering of spam with very few messages making it through the double filter of SA on my host and Outlook 2003.
Aloha!