Migration between machines

[cheerio]

I am going to be greedy and pose the first two questions in this forum (assuming someone else does not get in first).

I am just about to build a new machine which will be Win XP. I will then want to migrate Mercury from my existing Win98 machine so that I can reformat and rebuild the older machine at leisure.

I was planning to download and install the software for Mercury and Pegasus onto the new machine. However, what folders/data files need to be moved across to preserve mail plus the settings as to which mail goes into which mailbox?

Ken

 

[mweinstock]

Actually, all you need to do is copy the entire Mercury folder tree to the new machine and create any shortcuts that you need, then install it as a service (again, if needed).

Mercury (merc/32) does not use the registry, so there's no need to reinstall the software.

I'm not sure about Pegasus, though. It may or may not require an install.

 

[cheerio]

Thanks for the info regarding Mercury.

Ken

 

[gnet2k]

Hi Cheerio

is mercury good? can i use it to retrieve all emails? we have multiple acct

thanks,
August

 

[cheerio]

I can only say how I use it.

Basically I have a sub-domain at my ISP. Any mail with an address of the form xxx@mysubdomain.myisp.co.uk is placed into one mailbox at my ISP.

Mercury takes mail from my mailbox at the ISP at intervals that I set and sorts it into local mailboxes on my machine depending on the xxx. If xxx is ken I get it, if its my wife's name she gets it.

Mercury also picks up outgoing mail and sends it out.

My understanding is that it can handle more than one point to collect mail from so you could have multiple remote accounts and for each such account set up sorting rules as to the local mailboxes they should be sorted to.

Mercury is free and remarkably powerful. Take a look at

http://www.pmail.com

Ken