mail folders

[jludwig]

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 14:43, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, ecowper at frontiernet.net 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'?
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>