Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2009 mails)

[goodyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ian Goodyer)]

> > 
> > 1) I don't know whether there is a mail client foe both Windows and
> > Linux that uses the same format to store e-mail. In Windows, I use
> > Netscape Messenger but from what I learned from this list, the Linux
> > version is more than unstable.
> > Does anybody know about a mailing client which is able to do this?
> 
> I believe pine stores mail in standard RFC822 format, and pine is very
> stable. I don't know about mutt (the storage format, not the stability
> ;-> ). Find a Windows mail program that sticks to standard formats,
> unfortunately I can't name any, since I haven't used Windows for a good
> long while.

Yes, Eudora Pro v3 uses standard mbox format for sure.  If you copy your
eudora *.mbx files to ~/Mail and run pine all your eudora mailboxes will
be available (you can then of course rename them to lose the .mbx
extension).  I actually believe that Netscape does the same thing and
stores mail in mbox format files so what I would suggest, as a first try,
is make a symbolic link so that your netscape mail directory (presumably
on a FAT or NTFS partition) becomes ~/Mail and then run pine.  If it works
well and you can read your mail then I would put your netscape mail
folders on a FAT partition (as Linux Read/Write access is only
experimental on NTFS folders) and share the folder.  You may want to set
up separate symbolic links for each folder in a genuine ~/Mail so that the
names in pine look nicer.  Good luck.  Ian

 


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