With multiple POP3 accounts I had to painstakingly change all the folder
locations from c:\bla\bla\bla to /home/gnuyen/.mozilla/etcetc. Making
the mail folders relative to the users mozillas setting directory using
/ instead of \ would be really nice
Angus Davis wrote:
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> Phil Peterson wrote:
>
>
>> Angus Davis wrote:
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>>
>>> Jeff Alami wrote:
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>>>
>>>> I have a suggestion for the mail client in Netscape 5.0. On my home
>>>> computer system, I use both Windows 95 and Linux; as many Communicator
>>>> users currently do. I want to be able to share mail folders between the
>>>> two OS's (e.g. ~/nsmail is symbolic link to Win95 mail folders), but the
>>>> format is totally different. We should develop a way in which to
>>>> standardize on the UNIX mail system for all Communicator platforms, and
>>>> offer conversion to the new standard during the upgrade process.
>>>
>>> The only difference between the two stores is the naming convention for
>>> those files; the actual content inside is of the same format. Obviously,
>>> this would be easy for someone to fix, but you'd want to be sure that you
>>> wouldn't break things for backwards compatibility.
>>> -angus
>>
>> There are other potential differences, like in line endings, and summary file
>> format. My first guess would be that sharing mail folders between Linux and
>> Win32 on the same machine should work, but AFAIK, no one at Netscape has ever
>> tested it. I'd be interested to know what you mean by "the format is totally
>> different."
>
>
> I have successfully migrated my mail store from Win32. I copied over the folders
> Inbox, Sent, etc. and placed them in my empty ~/nsmail directory. Upon starting
> Messenger, the folders are "seen" just fine, and upon opening them, Messenger
> generates the appropriate summary files for me. This doesn't qualify as a "test"
> (I'm no QA expert) but it seemed to work as expected.
> -angus
