Thanks to all those who took the trouble to answer. Based on the
answers I received I'll try Procmail and if that doesn't work out,
I'll try PINE which I used many years ago when my ISP still provided
a terminal window (under DOS).
But out of courtesy, I'll answer a few points that came up in the
answers I received.
>From: "Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>SS>> My second question is: Is it possible to **translate** the e-mail
>SS>> messages from my current OS/2 program
>Depends on what the format was, surely. Unfortunately, many client makers
>feel unresistable urge to reinvent the wheel and put the mail into own
>proprietary format...
The PMMAIL/2 program I use in OS/2 seems to be a standard format, and
I have succeeded in **mounting** the OS/2 HPFS file system under
LINUX and reading the e-mail messages using PICO. So I think it
should be doable.
>From: Gaal Yahas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 3 - filters should work on incoming or outgoing messages or both
> Outgoing: should be doable, as there is a hook to control the
> command that sends mail, but I've not done this myself nor seen
> it done. What filters do you have in mind?
For instance, when I write to this list, my message gets sent to the
box I use to receive mail from the list - not to the **sent mail**
box. Letters I write to family members are moved to a **family** box.
>From: "Andre E. Bar'yudin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>You wrote down almost every imaginable thing that a e-mail client can
>do. It is really pleasing to know that someone wrote a program which
>does all this things. If you can also confirm that everything works
>without bugs...
This is only a small part of what my current OS/2 client (PMMAIL/2)
can do - and yes, I will miss it when I move to LINUX.
>From: Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Even if you can't convert your mailboxes from the format used by your OS/2
>program into the format used by Unix E-mail clients, you can accomplish
>this by causing your OS/2 client to send all messages in your mailbox to
>some address. After sending the messages, switch to Linux and retrieve
>the messages into it from the above address.
not practical for several thousand messages - yes, I'm a pack-rat :-)
--- Omer
>On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Gaal Yahas wrote:
> > My second question is: Is it possible to **translate** the e-mail
> The "unix" mailbox format is very simple. If you grok your previous
> mailer's format, you should be able to write a convertor easily.
>Not to miss a chance, <hat> Perl is a great tool for this job.</hat>
So this will be a chance to learn Perl - although I'm more
comfortable with C
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999 19:26:53 +0000 (GMT), Udi Finkelstein wrote:
>Can VMwave run OS/2? then he can run OS/2 under VMware, and send it to Linux
>through the virtual network connecting both machines...
an interesting idea, but I think I'm still too new to Linux to start
playing with VMware (although it does sound good).
>anyhow, most EMail clients I know have import/export options for generating
>ASCII dumps of their mail.
in this case, not necessary since my OS/2 mail IS already in ASCII
form. My question really regards all the other info my current client
saves - arrival time, status (read, answered, etc), attachments.
Again thanks to all - Shana Tova - Gmar Tov
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