I am currently using Netscape 6.2 with a dual boot. I use it in both the Mandrake Linux 8.1 and Win98 Os's. In fact my main motivation for doing this is that I can thus keep my past sevaral years of mail history and folders. In the past, I have been able to do this to some extent with Netscape 4.x but here the mail folder naming convention, while similar in the two Os's, is not identical. I can move my mail from one system to the other with some effort but it is not automatic (I could probably write a script to do this if I were more experienced).
In Netscape 6.2 the situation looks more promising. In windows the Netscape 6.2 application stores the mail by default in: "Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<user name>\<codded directory name>..." In Linux the mail is of course in "Home/<user>/.mozilla/<codded directory name>..." After these paths, the contents appear to be the same so if I could get both installs (Mdk and Win9x) to use the same path I think I could share my e-mail folder until I become completely comfortable with Linux and no longer return to Win9x for various purposes. Obviously, this would have to be on my Fat partition since Linux can read it and Windows cannot read the Ext3 in Linux. However, it is this coded directory name that is the problem. This appears to be installation specific. In fact two different installation on the same OS will have different coded names. I have tried to figure this code out but with no success. If I try pointing netscape at a different folder it does not seem to work. It seems odd that netscape (mozilla) would hide this dat. Perhaps I a missing something. The stuff inside these folder does not appear to be encrypted. So my question is, Does anybody know what gives here. Does anybody with Mozilla experience recognize this situation (I do not know if Mozilla handles mail like NS 6.2) Any ides where I could get this information. A contact at NS or Mozilla perhaps. Thanks, Kim
