I have Netscape 4.5 on an old IBM PC with Win 95 and I want to transfer the Mail messages, Inbox, Mail folders & the Address Book to an HP laptop with Win XP Home SP2 and Seamonkey 2.0 (which already has mail, folders and address book set up).

With help from references supplied by Martin I have completed the following steps:

As the old PC only has a floppy drive (A:), I have exported the address book (LDIF) to a floppy disc by the following steps: Opened Netscape and clicked on "Address Book", selected the address book and from the File menu I chose "Export". In the "Export As" window, I typed a file name and exported it to the floppy drive (A:).

For the mail files, I went to C:\Program Files\Netscape\Users\ and opened User1 & User2 folders and copied the Inbox.sbd, Inbox, Sent, Unsent Messages, & Draft files (not .msf) to the floppy disc. Where there was any duplication of file names with those on the laptop, I renamed them (eg. InboxOld1, xxxOld2).

I then zipped the mail files on the floppy to a zip folder and copied it and the Address Book to a CD-RW disc (the laptop does not have a floppy drive).

I now intend to open the compressed files on the CD with the laptop and copy them into the equivilant folders/files in my Profiles folder (abook.mab, Inbox, Sent, etc.).

I hope this all makes sense as I would appreciate some feedback before I proceed, to assure me that I'm on the right track and have taken the right steps so far.

An old-timer trying to keep up.
Ed

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