Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-14 Thread Justin B Rye
Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] > I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I > don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is > great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt > can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know?

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-13 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'm going to keep my search to a text based email client, because I > don't like to have to use vnc to view my email from home... Mutt is > great in an Xterm, and picture viewing is good too. I wonder if mutt > can use links or netscape for html viewing... Anyone know? It's

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Andre Berger
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010311 02:25 +0100: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > > mbox files. > > > > Theoretically yes. But it

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-10 Thread Colin Walters
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > > mbox files. > > Theoretically yes. But it doesn't work with anything else but ML (here), > and I can't find example

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread kmself
on Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:33:40PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > I'm switching to mutt right now. I've got to get off netscape, because > > it has crashed a couple times, and once just before I was going to reply > > to a

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:41:38PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:21:32PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > > > abook package where? > > In unstable, at least, it's in main/Mail. Just apt-get install abook. > > I took my Outlook Express (sorry!) address book and pulled it in

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:21:32PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote: > > abook package where? In unstable, at least, it's in main/Mail. Just apt-get install abook. I took my Outlook Express (sorry!) address book and pulled it into (Windows) Netscape 4.76, then copied it over here to Debian. I think there

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread MaD dUCK
> > Believing this to be true, I installed the abook package a while back. > > However, I have been unable to locate a shred of documentation on how > > mutt and abook work together. Any hints on where to look? abook package where? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \_

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:48:04PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really > > > > yes. either the int

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Michael Epting
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really > > yes. either the internal one, or using an external database. Believing this to be true, I in

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread brian moore
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really yes. either the internal one, or using an external database. > nice too. Does mutt or gnus have that? depends on what you mean. auto address completion? sure

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really nice too. Does mutt or gnus have that? Mike NOTE: please remove "mikef-linux-x86" from the last couple email messages from me to reply.

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 04:42:28PM -0500, Peter Kovacs wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > > Back to mutt and friends: > > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it ca

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:48:46PM -0800, MikeF wrote: > Back to mutt and friends: > Are there any utilities that will scan a mbox and delete messages older than > a relative date in the past? Say, 30, 14 or 7 days? Maybe it can move them > over to another mbox hierarchy for archive... Any ideas

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread MikeF
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:33:40PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > I'm switching to mutt right now. I've got to get off netscape, because > it has crashed a couple times, and once just before I was going to reply > to a long message. THAT scared me, that's for sure! Oh, BTW. I've already switched fr

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Mike Fedyk
Sven LUTHER wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:33:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > > mutt: didn't look very much, so don't know. > > It is very nice, let's you do a lot of things, and is compatible with balsa > (which is just a frontend to libmutt anyway). > > That said, use procmail for mail

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:22:59PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > > "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > What format does netscape use to store mail? Is it mbox-like, or > something else? I think it is an mbox + some index file. You would have to check first, then just

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Andre Berger
* Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 20010309 10:25 +0100: > Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Could you perhaps tell how to make Gnus use mbox format by default? > > (serious question of course) > > Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes > mbox files.

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-09 Thread Colin Walters
Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Could you perhaps tell how to make Gnus use mbox format by default? > (serious question of course) Gnus 5.8 has the "nnmbox" backend, so which I assume reads and writes mbox files. Using nnml is a lot nicer though. I hear mutt even groks nnml folders n

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-08 Thread David J. Roundy
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:22:59PM -0500, Josh Huber wrote: > > What format does netscape use to store mail? Is it mbox-like, or > something else? Netscape uses the mbox format. I made the switch from netscape to mutt just last year, and it goes pretty smoothly. You can pretty easily just use

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-08 Thread Andre Berger
On 20010308 22:54 +0100, Josh Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently switched from using Mutt to Gnus, mostly because I > started to get frustrated with the mutt config file format and the > lack of a programming language to customi

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-08 Thread Josh Huber
> "Mike" == Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] What format does netscape use to store mail? Is it mbox-like, or something else? What another person suggested about transferring your mail to an IMAP server might be a good idea if you can't just transfer the spool files. Mike> mutt

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-08 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:33:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the > list... > > I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and > have over 50 folders and even more filters. I have been ge

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-07 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Mike Fedyk (on Tue, 06 Mar 2001 05:33:34PM -0800): > Now, here's the problem. I want to convert my email activities over to > linux. > So, I may as well drop netscape at the same time, if I can. I would like to be > able to read html mail also. I've looked at a couple in the last hal

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-07 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 05:33:34PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi, > > I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... > > I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over > 50 > folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-07 Thread Eric Richardson
Mike Fedyk wrote: > > Hi, > > I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... > > I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over > 50 > folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000 messages a > month, and now that I'm a

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-07 Thread Ilya Martynov
> "AB" == Andre Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: AB> [..skip..] AB> HTML mail if needed. Cases are _very_ rare ;) AB> Frankly I don't know about Nsc mail format on Win32; on Linux AB> it uses standard mbox format, which means you don't have to AB> convert your mail at al

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-07 Thread Andre Berger
On 20010307 11:33 +0100, Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Now, here's the problem. I want to convert my email activities over to > linux. > So, I may as well drop netscape at the same time, if I can. I would like to be > able to read html mail also. I've looked at a couple in the la

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-06 Thread Osamu Aoki
You should check out mutt again. Mutt can read html mail and can display threaded. type v and use lynx to read html mail. If you check mail-header of postings for this mailing list, user either use mutt or Emacs+GNUS. Guess why. Mutt can read mbox (netscape) type mailbox so it will be eas

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-06 Thread Anthony Fox
Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the > list... > > I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and > have over 50 folders and even more filters. I have been getting > about 10,000 messages a month, a

Re: Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-06 Thread John Griffiths
>Now, here's the problem. I want to convert my email activities over to linux. >So, I may as well drop netscape at the same time, if I can. I would like to be >able to read html mail also. I've looked at a couple in the last half hour, and >here's what I've come across in potato-r2. > there's a

Email client and conversion from Netscape Mail on win32

2001-03-06 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I am not on the debian-user list, so please cc me as well as the list... I have been using netscape mail for several years on winblows, and have over 50 folders and even more filters. I have been getting about 10,000 messages a month, and now that I'm a LKML reader, it's gone even higher. S