mail folders

[Eric Cowperthwaite]

Hi folks,

I've been around UNIX for a long time, mostly Solaris, but also Linux.
However, it's all in a server/data center environment, never done the
desktop *nix thing. So, after my wife's latest very nasty Windows
malware experience, I moved her PC to Fedora Core 2. That went very
well, with one major exception.

I need to move her mail folders from Mozilla on Windows to Mozilla on
FC2. Anyone done this or have any advice?

Eric

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, [e-mail] wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been around UNIX for a long time, mostly Solaris, but also Linux.
> However, it's all in a server/data center environment, never done the
> desktop *nix thing. So, after my wife's latest very nasty Windows
> malware experience, I moved her PC to Fedora Core 2. That went very
> well, with one major exception.
>
> I need to move her mail folders from Mozilla on Windows to Mozilla on
> FC2. Anyone done this or have any advice?

Simple copy doesn't work? (with perhaps dos2unix)

My recommendation for such transactions is to always use an IMAP
server as in intermediate step.

- copy local mail/folders on to the imap server [on the old machine/email-client]
- copy mail/folders from the imap server to the local machine [on the new machine/email-client]

Satish

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:43, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, [e-mail] wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been around UNIX for a long time, mostly Solaris, but also Linux.
> > However, it's all in a server/data center environment, never done the
> > desktop *nix thing. So, after my wife's latest very nasty Windows
> > malware experience, I moved her PC to Fedora Core 2. That went very
> > well, with one major exception.
> >
> > I need to move her mail folders from Mozilla on Windows to Mozilla on
> > FC2. Anyone done this or have any advice?
>
> Simple copy doesn't work? (with perhaps dos2unix)
>
> My recommendation for such transactions is to always use an IMAP
> server as in intermediate step.
> copy local mail/folders on to the imap server [on the old machine/email-client]
> copy mail/folders from the imap server to the local machine [on the new machine/email-client]
>
> Satish

If the MScat is still operational, can't you always 'forward the mail'?

[Eric Cowperthwaite]

Hey there,

jludwig wrote:
> If the MScat is still operational, can't you always 'forward the mail'?

Well, I could, but we are talking about years of mail in a series of 
nested folders. It would take a long time. I think I will just take her 
folders to work with me, load them into a mail client on Windows, upload 
to an IMAP server, then pull back down to a mail client on *nix of some 
kind. Then burn the folders back to CD and take em home. That ought to 
work just fine. I think there is a difference in the file spec or 
encoding between Mozilla on Windows and Mozilla on Linux/Unix. Going to 
post a question to the Mozilla.org folks as well.

Thanks, Eric

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mi, den 07.07.2004 schrieb [e-mail] um 18:11:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been around UNIX for a long time, mostly Solaris, but also Linux.
> However, it's all in a server/data center environment, never done the
> desktop *nix thing. So, after my wife's latest very nasty Windows
> malware experience, I moved her PC to Fedora Core 2. That went very
> well, with one major exception.
>
> I need to move her mail folders from Mozilla on Windows to Mozilla on
> FC2. Anyone done this or have any advice?

http://www.moztips.com/wiki/index.pcgi?page=BackUp
http://www.moztips.com/wiki/index.pcgi?page=MoveProfile
> Eric

Christoph

[Kostas Sfakiotakis]

[e-mail] wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been around UNIX for a long time, mostly Solaris, but also Linux.
> However, it's all in a server/data center environment, never done the
> desktop *nix thing. So, after my wife's latest very nasty Windows
> malware experience, I moved her PC to Fedora Core 2. That went very
> well, with one major exception.
>
> I need to move her mail folders from Mozilla on Windows to Mozilla on
> FC2. Anyone done this or have any advice?

Well although am using Fedora Core 1 and not 2 , i have been using the
various versions of Mozilla since 1.4 . The folder format that the
Windows version of Mozilla uses is the very same one as the Linux
version of Mozilla .  So a simple copy will do the work .
But , please be carefull where you put things , so you will not 
accidentally delete the current email .
Try this .
Go to the Fedora Core 2 box and launch Mozilla . Create a
fake account , for example WindowsMail .
Then simmply overwrite those files and you are done .

Kind Regards,
  Kostas
> Eric