Re: How to Import Netscape 4.7 Mail+News to Mozilla

[Kenneth P. Ruppel]

This may be true for mail, but not for newsgroup data.  The only files I have in my news directories are *.snm files, and they grow as more messages get downloaded.  There is also a hostinfo.dat file, but sometimes this is extremely small, sometimes over a meg in size.  In fact, when I finally found out where to specify the directory locations for my OLD datafiles (because I have a separate partition for DATA -- I can't STAND that 6.1 automatically put everything in C:\Documents-blah-blah-blah), now all of my newsgroups are empty.  In other words, I have lost access to all my old newsgroups, and I was doing research in many threads that now I can't get to.

I intend to continue reading this newsgroup (ironically, the only one I currently have!), to find if anyone has the answer to fixing this ridiculous situation.  In the meantime, I am ready to uninstall 6.1, to hopefully get my old news messages back.  This should be an install option.  I don't mind 6.1, in fact, in 2 days, it was kinda growing on me.  But this newsgroup situation is impossible.  Shame on you, Netscape!



Holger Metzger wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Dino Müller wrote:

With Netscape I could simple copy the files between the versions.
But this doesn't work because Mozilla has a new file format.
(*.msf, old was *.snm)

Still the same format (Unix mbox). The *.snm never contained the mails, they're index files. Your mails are in the files without extension. And you can copy them from 4.xx to Mozilla.


Holger