On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:57 am, g wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > You could be right, there. Thinking about it, I've mainly been > > importing Netscape mail into different Netscape versions, and to > > some extent Mozilla mail into new Mozilla installs. Netscape > > did seamlessly take up my Mozilla mail setup when it trashed the > > Mozilla one - but perhaps that is to be expected, too, as a > > commercial proposition. Perhaps not. > > > > > > > > They certainly look the same, but of course it is possible that > > they carry some sort of identifier that sets them apart and makes > > them unusable. > > data files, '*.msf' may be diff between moz and ns. > > in moz, each email file has a 'fn.msf' file. each directory is a > 'dir.sbd', along with 2 files. a '0' size file and an msf file. > I'll look some more at this when I'm not as pushed for time.
> > It was netscape 7 in linux that I was trying to import to moz in > > linux. I'm very puzzled by it all. I seem to have trashed the > > files now, and it wasn't all that important. > > you forgot 3 magic words, 'backup, backup, backup'. > No, I do have backup. As I said, there is nothing important there, it's just that I wanted the convenience. With the old versions of netscape you could keep your data files anywhere you wanted (i.e. not in a subdirectory of ntscp). If you then, from a new install, attempted to create a profile with a matching name and pointed it at the correct directory it would say that there was already a profile with that name, and do you want to use that data? Nice, and a lot more convenient that the way moz and the new netscapes handle it. I don't see it as a security risk either, in linux at least, since the permissions would still hold. > _never_ use 'active files' for test purpose. > _always_ use copied paths for test. > _no_ exceptions to this rule. > > > What is more interesting, not to say frustrating, is that there > > seems to be no way you can set up for moz to collect mail from a > > netscape.net account. > > have you verified this with netscape? > Didn't even try. I once tried contacting netscape with a tech query and got an automatic answer that netscape do not support end users. That was ntscp6 under windows. It was the best solution I had found so far (didn't know about moz), but it strongly put me off them as a company. No big deal. If it can't do what I want there are plenty of isps who can. Meanwhile, my address is still valid, and so long as I use it very carefully it will only get black hole posts into it. Thanks, g Anne
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