[techtalk] converting netscape(win)mail to netscape(linux)mail

Nicole Zimmerman colby at wsu.edu
Tue May 2 13:20:03 EST 2000


My husband copied his folders directly from windows to linux using
netscape and it worked out just fine. You should be able to copy the
folders over into your netscape mail directory and read them just like
netscape in windows.

If you want to convert them, I'm not sure *what* to use. The mail client
of choice (if it's not netscape) may provide something for converting
(if you're lucky ;o)). My experience with non-gui mail readers in linux
is that they store mail in text only formats while netscape is some
weird binary crap.

-nicole

Gabriele Burkel wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> this is the first time for me to post to this list, hope its not OT.
> I want to change my preferred operating system from win98 to Linux,
> using SuSE 6.3.
> 
> The problem is that I have tons of emails with my Netscape 4.72 running
> on Win98.
> And I hate the thought of losing them all.
> 
> So is there a chance, maybe a smart tool for converting my mail folders
> to fit netscape (or any other mail client) running on linux?
> 
> I tried simply to copy them, but without success.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hints
> Gabi





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