At 3:30 PM -0700 10/16/01, Warren Michelsen wrote: >Part of his problem is that all the user account names and passwords are >stored in the Windows Registry on his mail server (apparently where >Netscape Mail Server v1.1 stores such things) and there seems to be no >way to get them out. > >If anyone knows how to extract user data from Netscape Mail Server v1.1 so >it can be imported into SIMS, I'd really appreciate knowing. I'd like to >convince him to just switch to SIMS, or Communigate. > A PowerPC based 6100 can be purchsed used from some of the on-line resellers for $79. With SIMSs it comes to $79. He'll end up paying a significant fraction of that for an Ethernet AAUI transceiver ($25). He might want a better Mac though, so he can eventually upgrade it to OS X.
Netscape uses the registry, which is a single hierarchical preference file for everything in Windows. It has an easy-to-use and very dangerous utility called regedit that can export a section of the registry to a text file. SIMS comes with an account loader app that works on tab delimited files. So the missing piece is a transformation from one text file format to another text file format, which is a perfect application for something like PERL or JavaScript or ($Diety help us) MS Excel. Seems like a pretty cheap option to stop running an open relay. -- Michael Croft mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SAM: It's 106 miles to the Crack of Doom. We've got a magic ring, two daggers, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses FRODO: Hit it. ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
