Finally the motherboard of my wife's computer broke down, so I had to replace it. I could not just get a new motherboard, because they do not sell boards with "462" sockets anymore. The cheapest solution was an MSI motherboard with AMD-64 dual core and one gig of memory. You cannot get anything simpler nowadays. I can clearly remember the time when such specs would have meant "supercomputer" (as in "several million dollars").
This operation made her old Windows 2000 unusable. You can run a 32-bit OS on a 64-bit machine, but some things (notably the ATI display drivers for the new motherboard) refuse to install if the OS is not 64-bit. A great opportunity to install Linux. I didn't install Debian itself, but the 64-bit version of Ubuntu. After some tweaking it works fine, including some difficult things like Japanese input, printing through the home network, etc. Before reformatting the Windows hard disk I first copied its contents to a USB external disk. From there I could restore the mail address book (Outlook -> Thunderbird) and the browser favorites/bookmarks (IE -> Firefox). My wife thinks the new system is great. After all this smalltalk, my real question: I still have lots of old e-mail in Microsoft format (with names like in-2005.dbx, out-2006.dbx, etc; some filenames are in Japanese, and the messages inside the .dbx files are mostly Japanese). I searched the web for "converting dbx to mbox". Found lots of answers, most of them seem old, and they do not agree. Is there a "canonical" way to make .dbx mail archives available to Linux Thunderbird/Icedove? Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]