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 __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\