Hi all, I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem. If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read. Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months. Thanks in advance, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Create another folder in NS called read, and move the messages there when they in fact have been read. Then point mutt to the new dir ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox/read hope im not oversimplifying a more complex issue ;-) rob Chris Reeves wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem.
If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months.
rob wrote:
Create another folder in NS called read, and move the messages there when they in fact have been read. Then point mutt to the new dir
~/.netscape/mail/Inbox/read
hope im not oversimplifying a more complex issue ;-)
That is one possible solution that I've thought about, and it may have to be the eventual solution. The main problem with that is that I've got loads of subdirectories with both read and unread messages, and I don't fancy sorting through the ~50000 messages lying in various places and creating 'read' directories and sorting the messages for each subdirectory. Admittedly that's a slight exaggeration, as I can sort by 'read' or 'unread', but it would still be a major PITA.
Chris Reeves wrote:
I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem.
If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months.
Thanks for the suggestion though, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
I couldnt see why you would want to *see* all those mesages through a mail program.... A really cool thing to do is use mhonarch to convert them all to html files. works very, very, well Then you can browse them thru your browser (threaded etc) very nice (and then delete the actual mail files... making your mail program much more manageable. check out mhonarc http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/mhonarc.html Ive used it for about a year *very* robust /perl tool If you need any help on it Id be happy to send you some of my monarch.mrc files my 2cts rob Chris Reeves wrote:
rob wrote:
Create another folder in NS called read, and move the messages there when they in fact have been read. Then point mutt to the new dir
~/.netscape/mail/Inbox/read
hope im not oversimplifying a more complex issue ;-)
That is one possible solution that I've thought about, and it may have to be the eventual solution. The main problem with that is that I've got loads of subdirectories with both read and unread messages, and I don't fancy sorting through the ~50000 messages lying in various places and creating 'read' directories and sorting the messages for each subdirectory. Admittedly that's a slight exaggeration, as I can sort by 'read' or 'unread', but it would still be a major PITA.
Chris Reeves wrote:
I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem.
If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months.
Thanks for the suggestion though, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 06:05, Chris Reeves wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem.
If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months.
Sorry Chris but I think you are stumped. I am sure that Netscape stores that information in a separate file. I've looked at the index files in KMail as well and I'm sure that they are storing such information in their index file as well. I don't have Mutt up and working yet so I can't check to see if it creates any indices. Jethro
Jethro Cramp wrote:
On Wednesday 04 April 2001 06:05, Chris Reeves wrote:
I'm trying to move from Netscape to mutt/pine, but Netscape doesn't seem to be marking messages as 'read' correctly. Netscape is supposed to use standard mbox format, apart from their .summary files, so I wouldn't have thought this would be a problem.
If I open, say, ~/.netscape/mail/Inbox in mutt or pine, the vast majority of messages are marked as new (other than 6 or 7, which are marked as 'read' for some unknown reason). In Netscape, these messages have definitely been marked as read.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate anything at all, as I've been working at this on and off for 4 or 5 months.
Sorry Chris but I think you are stumped. I am sure that Netscape stores that information in a separate file. I've looked at the index files in KMail as well and I'm sure that they are storing such information in their index file as well.
I don't have Mutt up and working yet so I can't check to see if it creates any indices.
That's what you'ld think, but if you delete all of the .summary files from the Netscape mail directories, then Netscape happily rebuilds them with the correct read/unread/replied flags. I'm sure there are no other files involved. I suppose I could compare mutt specified read/unread message files and Netscape specified read/unread message files and find the differences and see how they're marked, then write a script to convert them. But that would take time. Thanks, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Hi, Jethro Cramp wrote:
Sorry Chris but I think you are stumped. I am sure that Netscape stores that information in a separate file. I've looked at the index files in KMail as well and I'm sure that they are storing such information in their index file as well.
I still have to work in Win$ (dual boot), and wanted to keep one single mail dir between it and Linux, so I tried a link to a Netscape folder from the Kmail maildir: - Importing Netscape folder into Kmail: all read/unread info is there - Importing Kmail folder into Netscape: seems to have forgotten most of the info... BR, Gudmund
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