I think Migrate (in principle) will do exactly what I want :
VZ> DBW> MH format - I need to recompile for this, yes ? What are the problems ?
VZ> No, you don't need to recompile, support for it is included by default.
VZ> The problems are bad flags handling (e.g. flags like "Important" are simply not remembered when you VZ> VZ> close the folder and open it again), poor perfomance and maybe more. So it's pretty bad for day to day VZ> use. But it could be just fine for export/archival.
Which is what I want it for ...
VZ> If you already have a way to create HTML from MBOX this would also work with MH files. The difference VZ> between MBOX and MH is that MBOX folder contains many messages while in MH the folder is a directory VZ> with many files each of which contains exactly one message.
Yes strictly I am handling MH format so far, but that is what I need ...
VZ> What is slightly more involved is decoding MIME-encoded parts. But GNU
VZ> mailutils might be able to do this.
Yes you are quite right, but for my web page application for the oment I am happy with
the transformed text or original html -
A lot of the graphics are in the form : src="" so I suppose these will
Still work. With any other embedded photos - I might try handling graphic attachments as a later stage.
OK, I have just remembered that I have a very old ("NT") mail address with a few
messages still in it,
So tried Tools => Migrate on that - and it is quite clear that in principle,
Migrate will do exactly what I want - I have now pointed it at sub tree [Groups => pine ]of my
Primary mail account, and it is clearly trying to just copy the sub tree to files/directories :
However I get some error messages :
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16:19:19: Mail log: Can't create mailbox node C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\Application Data\Mahogany\D:\: Invalid argument
16:19:19: Mail log: Can't create mailbox #mh/D:\home\xxxxx\mail\Mahogany\Test\mail\Groups\pine: Invalid argument
16:19:19: Mail log: Can't open mailbox #mh/D:\home\xxxxx\mail\Mahogany\Test\mail\Groups\pine: no such mailbox
16:19:19: Could not open mailbox ''.
16:19:19: Failed to create the target folder "pine"
16:19:19: Failed to copy messages from folder "pine"
16:19:19: There were errors during the migration.
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Is it possible that browse has a confusion over forward/backward slashes ? Or C: vs D: ?
Any help much appreciated, now that I am this near ...
Cheers,
beau
