Email Files

[natimage]

I know this is going to sound like I'm trying to do something the hardest way possible, but there is a reason.

 

If I download files (FTP) from my "mail" folder on TCH to my computer, is there a way I can open those files with Outlook, Outlook Express or Mozilla Mail??

 

Setting those mail programs to talk to TCH is not possible right now...that's why I'm trying to go the long way around!!

 

Thanks!

[TCH-Bruce]

I don't think so Tracey. You can open them with Notepad since they are simply text files. But I don't know of anything on a Windows machine that could actually process them without running some sort of POP server.

 

But as an alternative why don't you use one of the webmail options in cPanel until you find the time to set up a mail program?

Edited May 17, 2004 by TCH-Bruce

[annie]

EditPad is also good. Opens huge files.

[natimage]

Thanks for the suggestions! Bruce, my problem was stemming from having email for 69 different people within a hospital getting routed to the wrong mailserver. So all that email, over 300 emails, is all sitting in the Horde Inbox...jumbled together. When we switched the site over, they wanted to keep using a local company for their email, and I didn't know enough about it to get the mailserver info. correct in the beginning. So, it's all my fault, really! Live and learn! At least they understood and weren't upset with me!!

 

Plus, for whatever reason that is beyond me...the hospital can't seem to access their .com domain. Everyone else in the world can, but not them!

 

Anyway...I think we will actually be able to do it without doing what I had asked about. We got the mailserver issue fixed, so now 2 of us should be able to log in to Horde and just forward the emails to their correct accounts. It'll take a while...but at least it should work.

[natimage]

New problem (albeit smaller...) related to this original issue! The client is now receiving email with their previous web host server! I know it is working. However, over a period of 3 days, the mail account on the TCH server received 7 emails to different individuals in the hospital (my client).

 

If the MX entry was changed, and they are successfully getting email on their side, why would just a few emails not abide by the MX entry???

[annie]

Same thing happens to me, though only spam mails.

 

I think the DNS changes started propagating the 9th, and I still get mail through the old server.

 

Fact of life, I'm afraid.

 

Lots of old data out there.