Gabriele Burkel wrote:
> The problem is that I have tons of emails with my Netscape 4.72 running
> on Win98.
> And I hate the thought of losing them all.
>
> So is there a chance, maybe a smart tool for converting my mail folders
> to fit netscape (or any other mail client) running on linux?
>When I switched from Eudora to Pine, I had to convert all of the files
>from DOS text to Unix text -- the specific problem was something with the
>carriage returns. Since Eudora stores messages in mbox format, everything
>else went fine. Before converting them, Pine saw the mailboxes as just
>one
Usually when translating files from msdos to unix, you have to
translate at least the line termination characters. Msdos
uses a carraige return-line feed combination (hex 0xd0xa) to
terminate lines, while unices use only a line feed. Some utilities
perform the translation automatically. In a
(Accidentally deleted the original message)
I don't know if this helps or is even related to the specific problem,
but:
When I switched from Eudora to Pine, I had to convert all of the files
from DOS text to Unix text -- the specific problem was something with the
carriage returns. Since Eudora
At 13:20 02.05.2000 -0700, Nicole Zimmerman you wrote
> This was the original Message:
>My husband copied his folders directly from windows to linux using
>netscape and it worked out just fine. You should be able to copy the
>folders over into your netscape mail directory and read them jus
>So is there a chance, maybe a smart tool for converting my mail folders
>to fit netscape (or any other mail client) running on linux?
>
>I tried simply to copy them, but without success.
I am runnin Win and Linux parallel and I use Netscape and Eudora for mailing.
My mails are stored on a Fat16
My husband copied his folders directly from windows to linux using
netscape and it worked out just fine. You should be able to copy the
folders over into your netscape mail directory and read them just like
netscape in windows.
If you want to convert them, I'm not sure *what* to use. The mail cli
