>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.
>
Hi again,
I've never done it, but I believe something like BBEdit could do
the sorting & formatting on the raw registry file using something like the
Grep function. Someone with more knowledge on these things than me might be
able to assist here.
Bye for now, Terry Allen
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