Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1483 mails)

[Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@xxxxxxxx>]

Robin Klitscher <robnk@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> To a degree, this situation would have been eased if I'd been able to
> get OS/2 up and running in a virtual machine under openSUSE.  But,
> despite many attempts and much frustration, I have not been able to
> get any of the OS/2 flavours to work satisfactorily as a VirtualBox
> guest in an openSUSE host.  That includes eCS 2.0 and the latest
> editions of VBox.

I have been able to get WARP 4 working with qemu.

> But it won't work forever.  Against that day, what I'd like to do is
> convert the contents of archived Yarn/2 mail folders into mbox format
> so I can then import them into Thunderbird or other mailer running on
> openSUSE (currently 12.1).

The only way that I can think of is to pack your folders into SOUP files
with "Yarn to Soup with Grep"[1], read them into Gnus under Emacs with
the nnsoup backend and copy/move the messages to mbox files. However,
Gnus have a steep learning curve- YMMV.

Charles

Footnotes: 
[1] http://www.vex.net/~x/bells2.phtml#ytsg

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