> I just have a quick question about converting mailboxes from Mercury
> to  Imail.  I  have  no idea how to do it and I have yet to find the
> answer  in the postings or in the knowledge base. Is there some type
> of  tool  or  easy way to convert users mailboxes from Mercury 32 to
> Imail.

I  don't  think  there's  a prefab way to do the conversion, but it is
certainly scriptable.

Merc  uses  a  maildir-like  format,  with  separate files per message
(though  without  maildir's  multiple  top  dirs).  IMail  users  Unix
standard   mbox  format,  which  you  may  wish  to  read  up  on.  By
concatenating  Merc  messages in ascending date order (oldest messages
first) and putting a dummy mbox-style delimiter line--

>From <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue Jun 10 15:04:17 2003

--between  each  message, you should be able to make an IMail-parsable
file.

-Sandy


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Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist
Broadleaf Systems, a division of
Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc.
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