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| Subject: | [opensuse] Caller ID |
| Group: | Suse-linux-e |
| From: | Richard Creighton |
| Date: | 6 May 2008 |
I just converted a very good friend from M$ to SuSE 10.3 (I won't
inflict a beta on her just yet <grin>) and so far she is really happy.
She is a life-long M$ user but she is tired of me nagging her about
Linux <big-grin>. I set her up with Thunderbird to replace her PMMail
package she had been using for years and she sees the possibilities of
using it do do the job as it has much the same look and feel and
features. The main problem that I haven't been able to solve for her
is that she runs a small specialty club with about a couple of thousand
current or former members that receive a mailing list from her
periodically. Of course, TB can do this quite nicely, BUT, I can't
figure out how to export her contacts and message base from PMMail to
Thunderbird.
She is like me and old computer parts. She doesn't throw *anything*
away :) Seriously, she compiles a good percentage of the messages she
receives and extracts the information and organizes it by year and puts
it into folders. PMMail makes this pretty easy for her and so will
Thunderbird and with the additional features like the Calendar and task
manager add-ons in TB, it is a dream come true for her. BUT, there is
the problem of saving all of that data from PM and getting it into TB.
So, the question is, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to best
proceed? What I have done so far so her club mail list doesn't have to
shut down is to set up VirtualBox and load WinXP into it and imported
PMMail into that virtual machine which then runs PMMail under a virtual
machine under Linux. This allows her to do her mailings from PMMail
within XP on the Linux machine BUT I want an integrated solution so she
doesn't have to remember where she did what. Eventually I want to
extract the information out of her mailer and put it into OpenOffice
Base where she can really use the database functions to manipulate the
information the way it should be handled. Mailers may facilitate
collections, but they aren't DataBase engines.
Now, what does this have to do with CALLER ID you ask :) ... that is my
other problem....every time anyone calls, she MANUALLY records the name
and number and time in her computer by hand by transcribing from her
phone caller-id log. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY!!!!! I just can't
find it for SuSE. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, so a pointer
in the right direction would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance to all....
Richard
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