OT: Re: Autosaving Windows Address Books

[Walter Vaughan]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> The users are all on XP machines running Anzio to access filePro on a
> Unix server.  They use either Outlook Express or Thunderbird as their
> MUA, fetching their email with imap from the same Unix box.

> Is there any Windows software which could run in the background to do
> this exporting on a schedule, without user intervention?

http://bitdaddys.com/thunderstor.html

or

I also used to do stuff like this (writing a program in VB to control a Windows 
app that had no macro functionality) in the Windows 3.1 days with VB2 or VB3, 
but I can't remember how much that is still available today.

Then again, you have full access to the source of Thunderbird. It may be a 
trivial thing to have it call the export method depending upon when you want it 
to happen to a specific location without human intervention.

This is all the more reason why they should be running some sort of web based 
email client like SquirrelMail or any of the more modern Ajax-ey web email servers.

You should be able to make a very convincing case that local delivery to a 
WindowsXP box is just bad and evil, and this would be simple as pie to integrate 
with filePro.

--
Walter