[SLE] Archiving Netscape mail
I'm using Netscape Communicator as my mailer. Communicator seems to have its own file structure for mail folders. I'd like to archive my mail onto CDROMs. Saving it there is the easy part. The hard part is how to look at it again once it's been archived, since there doesn't seem to be a way under Communicator to specify the location of the mail folder I want to look at. Any suggestions? Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
I'm using Netscape Communicator as my mailer. Communicator seems to have its own file structure for mail folders. I'd like to archive my mail onto CDROMs. Saving it there is the easy part. The hard part is how to look at it again once it's been archived, since there doesn't seem to be a way under Communicator to specify the location of the mail folder I want to look at.
Any suggestions?
Sounds like a good idea. My /home partation is a little tight on space. So what I do is move the messages I want to keep into thier own netscape folder. I then shutdown netscape and go into .netscape. From there I move the newly created files off to a empty part of the drive. I then setup a link pointing to the new location. Netscape never knows the difference. You could do something similar. Just point the link to /cdrom/oldmail or something like that. Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Netscape uses standard RFC822 mailbox format for its email messages. The index files are different. There are also import-export tools around. I actually wrote one to take Pegasus files and folders (which were a combination of Pegasus proprietary and RFC822), and explode them to Unix MH format, which is one message per file. On 7 Mar 00, at 15:54, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'm using Netscape Communicator as my mailer. Communicator seems to have its own file structure for mail folders. I'd like to archive my mail onto CDROMs. Saving it there is the easy part. The hard part is how to look at it again once it's been archived, since there doesn't seem to be a way under Communicator to specify the location of the mail folder I want to look at.
Any suggestions?
Paul Abrahams
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Jerry Feldman
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Any suggestions?
To archive: # tar cIvf mail-$DATE.tar.bz2 ~/nsmail/foldername0 ~/nsmail/foldername1 To the nth degree, just add the folders you want archived to the end of that statement. To read: bzcat mail-$OLDDATE.tar.bz2 > ~/nsmail/recovered And use nsmail to open the recovered folder. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x121 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Any suggestions?
To archive:
# tar cIvf mail-$DATE.tar.bz2 ~/nsmail/foldername0 ~/nsmail/foldername1
To the nth degree, just add the folders you want archived to the end of that statement.
To read:
bzcat mail-$OLDDATE.tar.bz2 > ~/nsmail/recovered
And use nsmail to open the recovered folder.
Hmmm. I assume I could equally well symlink to the archive itself if it's just an uncompressed directory, right? But will Netscape have trouble accessing a mail folder that it didn't put into place itself, what with having its own index files and such? Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Jon Pennington wrote:
And use nsmail to open the recovered folder.
Hmmm. I assume I could equally well symlink to the archive itself if it's just an uncompressed directory, right? But will Netscape have trouble accessing a mail folder that it didn't put into place itself, what with having its own index files and such?
Not really. It's mostly seamless. Remember that the only *directory* I've talked about is ~/nsmail ;). Everything below that is an RFC-Spec file with plain text in it. -- -=|JP|=- Jon Pennington | Atipa Linux Solutions -o) jpennington@atipa.com | Kansas City, MO /\\ 816-241-2641 x121 | http://www.atipa.com _\_V -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
Jon Pennington wrote:
And use nsmail to open the recovered folder.
Hmmm. I assume I could equally well symlink to the archive itself if it's just an uncompressed directory, right? But will Netscape have trouble accessing a mail folder that it didn't put into place itself, what with having its own index files and such?
Not really. It's mostly seamless. Remember that the only *directory* I've talked about is ~/nsmail ;). Everything below that is an RFC-Spec file with plain text in it.
OK, I did a couple of experiments, with interesting results. If I make a complete copy of nsmail on my hard drive and then create a link to it from nsmail/Archive, I can read everything I saved from Archive's subfolders. Problem solved? Not quite. To simulate what would happen were I to archive to CDROM, I took the write permissions off everything within the archive. Netscape now refused to read the archive because the folders within it didn't have write permission. So I've concluded that it's indeed possible to archive mail to CDROM, but to read it back is unpleasant: you have to copy the CDROM contents to disk before you can read them. (Unless you use some other mailer, that is.) Got any goodies in your bag of neat tricks, John? Paul Abrahams -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
I had a similar problem with netscape mail. I used it for a while then I got tired of it being so slow and I switched to pine. In order to get several hundred e-mail messages from netscape to pine this is what I had to do: 1 - Netscape should have made a file in your home directory called nsmail. In this file you should see any folders you have created along with your "inbox", "sent-mai", "trash", etc. folders. If you notice these are not directories but files. 2 - The files are seperated by the header information for the e-mail. If you copy the files you wish to archive to the CD, with the header information in tact, you should be able to go back to the saved files at a later date and read the e-mail. ( I had to move the files over to my pine directory and everything worked fine). Let me know if you need some more help. I may not have been very clear. Hope this answers your question. Robert On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'm using Netscape Communicator as my mailer. Communicator seems to have its own file structure for mail folders. I'd like to archive my mail onto CDROMs. Saving it there is the easy part. The hard part is how to look at it again once it's been archived, since there doesn't seem to be a way under Communicator to specify the location of the mail folder I want to look at.
Any suggestions?
Paul Abrahams
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"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote:
I'm using Netscape Communicator as my mailer. --- it's been archived, since there doesn't seem to be a way under Communicator to specify the location of the mail folder I want to look at.
I'm using 4.7 & looking in preferences -> mail server -> local mail directory you can set up a pointer to your preferred mail directory. I have a script that runs under cron to backup may mail daily to another location and that works perfectly. The only problems I have had are when Netscape crashes it sometimes corrupts the index files (.summary files) but these can be safely deleted and they will be rebuilt when required. -- Regards Derek Ryan -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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