On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 23:51, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Arturo di Gioia wrote: > > Mail: as for the mail content, I think you can just copy the files. > > Mozilla should recognize them as folders. > > This doesn't work. When I start up Mail & News, it wants me to create a > new account. I think the settings are kept in the prefs.js.
What I meant is, create the new account and then move the content of ~/.mozilla/$user/random_numbers/Mail/account_name/ from your previous box to your Gentoo box. Expecially. The important files are the couples (Filename,Filename.msf), they actually contain your mail. I don't use Mozilla as a mail reader, so I don't know if filters and other personalizations are placed here. I created a fake mozilla account on my box. My account mail is in dir /home/arturo/.mozilla/arturo/8oy4pec9.slt/Mail/mail.ing.unitn.it and the files created by Mozilla are in files named Drafts Inbox Inbox.msf Sent Templates Trash popstate.dat rules.dat probably you could overwrite these files with your own (be careful of setting correct user:group and permissions when migrating). I don't think personal settings are in prefs.js. Even if it is the case, the only important files are the plain text files that contain your mail, and I'm pretty sure that you can copy those files from one account to another without problems (I personally did it with Kmail and Evolution on Linux, and with Mozillamail on Windows). -- Arturo di Gioia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
