Shot in the dark here , havent tried it ...but i would try something like this first , if you are doing maildir try and scp or sftp a file to your pc and right click it and change the format to wordpad/notepad/ms-word , any of the mentioned progs, you will deffinately have a file with alot of headers and stuff which am sure you wont want to read but they are part of the file so, i guess thats what you will have. If that works out fine , what you can do next is allocate some space on a fileserver or a free box if linux you can do samba and you transfer the files to a cool dry place. Or you could change the file format directly off the server to .txt or which ever with xargs with a -n flag if they are many and you want to convert one by one.
hope this makes some sense my 2 shillings -- cheers David Ziggy Lubowa Customer Support Engineer Africa online Uganda Ltd. 5th Floor Commercial Plaza Plot 7 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256-41 258143 Mob: +256-78 323338 Fax: +256-41 258144 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.africaonline.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lule George William Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: lug_: Storing mail on CD Hello all, There is something on which I need a few pointers. My mailbox is quite heavy now and I sincerely believe it is time to relieve the server. However, I would like to keep some of the mails for future reference on a CD and in a format which is readable by a web browser or an ordinary word processor. I have tried googling around but all pointers lead to POP programs which simply transfer them to another hard disk and in a format readable only by them!! I would be glad if you shed some more light on this. Thanks!! ************************************************************************ Lule George William (Mr) Network and Systems Administrator Uganda Martyrs University, Nkozi P.O. Box 5498 Kampala Uganda --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
