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Greetings,

I recently installed RedHat Linux 5.2 on a second HD and dual-boot
between Windows 95 and Linux. I want to move completely to Linux but I
have all this mail in Eudora Pro 4 that I want to convert to Linux. I am
thinking that the best email solution for Linux is Netscape 4.5, which I
use for Web and News anyway. So I booted to Windows 95 and used the
conversion tool and got it to import my mail messages and folders to
Netscape Mail, which I could read fine. Then I copied the contents to a
different location, and removed the summary files, which I believe
cannot be read by Netscape for Linux. I then fired up Linux and pointed
Netscape Mail to that directory. The folders show up OK but the contents
are unreadable. My situation is complicated by the fact that I need some
solution which will allow me to move mail from home to office and
vice-versa, with the office machine being Windows 98.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Ab

Mail them to your self and use Linux to pull them of your isp..

That is what I did....

Bill

I'm having a similar problem, except I don't even have the Eudora
conversion trouble. I'd like to use the same mail folder in Win95
Netscape, and Linux Netscape Mail. Since I don't believe Win95 will
recognize an ext2fs, I figured I'd have to get Linux to read a fat16
file. I have my win/DOS partions mounted on boot, so that's not a
problem. I can set the default mail folder to be the one Netscape Mail
uses in Win95 <path=/dosC/Program Files/Netscape/Users/cjmark/Mail>. It
seems to accept it.

However, when I try to open Netscape Mail I get an error message that
"Default inbox folder does not exist. You will not be able to get new
mail." or some such, and mail won't launch. I thought the path might
just be too long, so I copied everything to another directory farther up
the tree. That was at least recognized, but the folders are still
unreadable.

I have previously uploaded all my mail folders to the Unix machine we
use at school and had everything recognized fine, although I had to
select each folder at first to get a message count.

If you come up with any answer, I'd appreciate it if you'd drop me a
line.

--
Christopher J. Mark
Mathematician, Tutor, and Webpage designer

http://www.math.umd.edu/~cjm    

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