Yesterday, Dave Cherkus gleaned this insight:
> Paul Lussier writes:
> |>
> |> Doesn't Netscape keep all mail in plain Berkeley-style folders regardless of
> |> platform? I would expect that you should be able to copy the NT folder
> |> structure to the Linux/Unix system and maye edit your .ma
On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Dave Cherkus wrote:
> Indeed the mail all comes from an imap server, but it can't stay there
> too long or it gets tossed. So I intend to use fetchmail/procmail/whatever
> to pull it off the imap server and park it under my home directory on
> the main file server.
Sounds
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 04:03:47PM -0500, Dave Cherkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I've looked at the mail with pine, mutt and netscape from all three
> platforms (well, there's no mutt for win32).
A number have had successful compiling mutt with CygWin. For
example, look here: http://unix
Dave Cherkus wrote:
>
> I guess the key to my scheme is to have lots of programs that support
> the same mailbox format, and the most widely supported file format
> seems to be berkely mbox. I've looked at the mail with pine, mutt and
> netscape from all three platforms (well, there's no mutt fo
Kenneth E. Lussier writes:
|> I have an IMAP server running that I can connect to using
|> Netscape on either Windoze or Linux. All of the mail stays on the server
|> so that I can change platforms easily, and I don't lose everything
|> everytime I have to reinstall windoze ;-).
Indeed the mail
Paul Lussier wrote:
> >If so, is there a similar feature for Netscape on the PC?
>
> Define PC. I'm running Netscape on a PC.
Picky little bastard, ain't ya? ;-)
> >I have a bunch of mailbox folders on my home directory on a unix server
> >that I want to look at with a linux desktop or a wind
Paul Lussier writes:
|> >I have a bunch of mailbox folders on my home directory on a unix server
|> >that I want to look at with a linux desktop or a windows pc. It's easy
|> >to do this with the linux desktop: just nfs mount the mail folders
|> >directory from the server, and use symlinks from ~
In a message dated: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 14:43:28 EST
Dave Cherkus said:
>What is the function of the .mailboxlist file?
>Does this tell Netscape where to look for mail folders?
Yes.
>If so, is there a similar feature for Netscape on the PC?
Define PC. I'm running Netscape on a PC.
>I have a b
Paul Lussier writes:
|>
|> Doesn't Netscape keep all mail in plain Berkeley-style folders regardless of
|> platform? I would expect that you should be able to copy the NT folder
|> structure to the Linux/Unix system and maye edit your .mailboxlist file
|> appropriately without any problems.
|>
Paul Lussier said:
> In a message dated: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:51:59 EST
> Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
>
> >BUT, I notice that the Netscape Mail files for my mail under NT are
> >very different from the structure in $HOME/nsmail under Linux (and,
> >I might add, under Tru64 here at work).
In a message dated: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 09:51:59 EST
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
>BUT, I notice that the Netscape Mail files for my mail under NT are
>very different from the structure in $HOME/nsmail under Linux (and,
>I might add, under Tru64 here at work). In both instances, I'll be
>usi
No conversion required. Your settings (any file ending .js) won't
convert, but the mail files themselves will just have to be renamed (eg.
instead of "Inbox.*" to "Inbox". The summary files will rebuild
themselves. Your folders will also take some tweaking, but, thankfully,
Netscape stores all
OK, I'll confess - for the last couple of years, I've been using
Windows NT to dial in to my local ISP and get (and manage) my e-mail.
I had a hiccup on the NT system and I've also purchased the SuSE 7.1
Professional kit and I'm getting ready to migrate to Linux full-time.
(I'll worry about read
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