Hi Shridhar
I was thinking along the same lines. I have almost the same versions of Netscape on
Linux and Win.
However, my existing mailbox is Outlook express 5 & Netscape is unable to import the
OE mails. Seems
like the file format has changed and even when I point the NS to the directory, it
refuses to accept
those files.
so I tried exporting the files from OE to Oulook & then tried impoting to Netscape.
However, netscape
does not import all the folders. Rather , it does not import the folders that I want -
namely my
office mails.
Import also does not work when I try the import of the specific folders. :-(
any ideas ? I hear that there are many e-mail clients available. Could you recommend
some ? Can they
import mails from outlook ?
I would like to use an e-mail client that has the following features :
LDAP access
message threading
regards
vibhu..
Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hi
>
> Sorry I lost the original mail.
>
> You can try this hack. Use netscape on windows and linux. Put netscape mails on a
>FAT partition and
> link the linux netscape mail dir in FAT partition at appropriate place.
>
> Assuming the both netscape use same formats. You need to check the versions first.
>
> Good Luck...
>
> Shridhar
>
> Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> > Vibhu Rishi [Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 09:47:40PM +0530]:
> >
> > > I have all my mails on the Windows partition, while I am now working
> > > under Linux . Whenever I need to send maisl , I need to boot into
> > > Windows, and then write my mails. This is really frustrating. Can anyone
> > > of you tell me how to over-come this problem ?
> >
> > This is a rather regular problem ... so let me see what I've found out (but never
>tried so far)
> >
> > > on windows I have Outlook express as the mail client & on Linux I am
> > > forced to use Netscape -- can you tell me a better e-mail client &
> > > web-browser than Netscape ?
> >
> > I think there are several mail clients (sylpheed, mulberry and adora come to
> > mind) which are cross-platform. There are apps which convert your OE folders
> > to standard unix MBOX format - search freshmeat .. (and btw, sylpheed uses MH
> > folders, but otherwise looks _exactly_ like outlook express interface-wise)
> >
> > Mutt can be compiled on windows using the cygnus libraries at
> > http://www.cygwin.com and there's a win32 port of vim at http://www.vim.org :)
> >
> > And, if you are masochistic (like Raju and a few other folks) there's always
> > VM/Gnus under emacs - you get both 'doze and unix versions of this. If you
> > switch to mutt or VM/Gnus, you dont need to switch back and forth between mail
> > clients at all :)
>
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