No conversion required. Your settings (any file ending .js) won't
convert, but the mail files themselves will just have to be renamed (eg.
instead of "Inbox.*" to "Inbox". The summary files will rebuild
themselves. Your folders will also take some tweaking, but, thankfully,
Netscape stores all the mail in straight ASCII, so, so long as you don't
delete anything, it's just a matter of plugging away.
-Ken
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 wrote:
>
> OK, I'll confess - for the last couple of years, I've been using
> Windows NT to dial in to my local ISP and get (and manage) my e-mail.
>
> I had a hiccup on the NT system and I've also purchased the SuSE 7.1
> Professional kit and I'm getting ready to migrate to Linux full-time.
> (I'll worry about reading the .doc and .ppt files that accumulate at
> work that I sometimes have to bring home, later on...).
>
> BUT, I notice that the Netscape Mail files for my mail under NT are
> very different from the structure in $HOME/nsmail under Linux (and,
> I might add, under Tru64 here at work). In both instances, I'll be
> using POP3 protocol, because that's what the ISP offers (no IMAP).
>
> Has anyone in the group done such a migration? It appears that I
> can't simply copy the files - I suspect (but haven't confirmed yet)
> that I'll have to do some sort of file conversion. I have about
> 75MB of mail that I'll be processing...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Bayard
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