Hi Ingo,

on Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:43:39 +0100, you wrote:

> Now I would like to import valuable collected emails into Netscape 6.1
> and so I just ask: How do I do it? NN only offers to import Eudora and
> Outlook.

First find out what mailbox format Netscape actually uses, IIRC its
mbox.
Get an *IX box with something supporting the target mailbox format, in
this case formail/procmail (or hope that they've been ported to Win32,
ie. as part Cygnus stuff).
Make a script that weeds out all news messages (match some always
present news-only header) from your Microdot message base and throw
the rest at aforementioned tools. In case Netscape is not able to sort
to subfolders on importing, procmail could take care of that too.

You only spoke of mails, but as Netscape also supports news and most
likely won't use a different format to store those, you might replace
the weeding process by simply letting procmail sort the news messages
to some other mbox(es) and so also import your news to Netscape.

I'm planning to do basically the same myself soon, expect that I'll
move the message base to Maildir format instead of mbox using maildrop
instead of procmail.
Thus any feedback or further ideas are welcome. :)

You will however loose any status information, ie. all flags like
read/unread, new, Archived etc. as those are stored in Microdot's
propietary index files.
The only "solution" for this I've found so far is simply reading all
your mail before doing the migration... ;)

It would be so simple if Microdot would've used a standard mailbox
format... ;)

elmar

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