You mean you can actually share your mailboxes across Windows and Linux?
How 'd you do?
I share the address books, and i works all right. If I could share the
mailboxes, it 'd find it useful.
> You could, but a shared directory would have to be on the win partition
> to be read and written by both win and linux, plus permissions changed
> on the win partition to allow nsmail to write. Possibly not worth it
> unless you are still using win a lot.
>
> Bill
>
> bascule wrote:
> >
> > i will try this
> > thankyou,
> > does this mean that i can have a shared directory for win and linux
> > netscape? perhaps only for subfolders where mail is filtred to?
> >
> > bascule
> >
> > Bill Gerber wrote:
> > >
> > > Sorry, I missed this thread before. You CAN copy your windows netscape
> > > mail files across to your linux /nsmail directory. It's a simple
> > > copy/paste, any filename clashes can be renamed in the process, and they
> > > will show as new subfolders next time you open the mail window. I have
> > > just done this.
> > >
> > > Bill.
> > >
> > > bascule wrote:
> > > >
> > > > thanks for your replies, i have discovered that i could indeed export my
> > > > address book in the ldif format and import it into linux netscape, also
> > > > i copied my bookmark.htm file from win98 over to linux and copied it
> > > > over bookmarks.html in my user .netscape directory (backing up the old
> > > > one of course) this worked fine, messages had to be downloaded all over
> > > > again however
> > > >
> > > > bascule
> > > >
> > > > J Walker wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I believe you could save your address book, too. If not by copying the file
> > > > > itself, try exporting/importing it.
> > > > >
> > > > > (I myself transferred from MS Outlook to Netscape-Linux with the help of
>Yahoo!
> > > > > address backup service, a much longer route - and it worked)
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > /J.
> > > > >
> > > > > Em qua, 24 mai 2000, bascule escreveu:
> > > > > > ah well!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks eric, at least i won't be wasting time trying to do the
> > > > > > impossible
> > > > > >
> > > > > > bascule
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Eric MC DECLERCK wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > NO !!!
> > > > > > > But you can try to copy your bookmarks
> > > > > > > files from
> > > > > > > netscape/win to your linux-netscape.
> > > > > > > Backup your linux bookmarks before !!!
> > > > > > > Eric
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > bascule wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > does anyone know if i can copy my windows netscape files over to my
> > > > > > > > linux installation to save downloading messages again, to transfer
> > > > > > > > bookmarks folders etc.?
> > > > > > > > the directory structure is different for my profile in windows and my
> > > > > > > > netscape directory in my user home directory
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > bascule
> > > > > > >
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