On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:02:06PM +0100, Chris Reeves wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 10:27:25AM -0500, Gary wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 12:08:40PM +0200 or thereabouts, Oliver Ob wrote:
But is there any way to do this using mutt?
For instance, NFS-exporting Netscape's inbox files and editing mails and what have you using mutt? does mutt use the same format? Is a link enough? I was afraid of testing it yet.
Mutt does just about anything, and supports any of the four mailbox formats. Netscape I believe uses the standard mbox format that is standard to Mutt, so just point your mutt in the Netscape mail dir and open your files. If you want to be double safe about this, just copy your Netscrape mail to a new or different dir to play with in Mutt, to test out. Press F1 in Mutt for the help files. Also might be worthwhile to go to mutt.org and get on their email list, as you will surely get a very detailed answer there. It is a fine list.
In actual fact, it does and doesn't work... Netscape uses a modified mbox format. Mutt can read Netscape's mailbox files (the basic format is the same), but the information about whether a message has been read, forwarded, replied to, etc. is not transferable.
I ran into this problem when I moved over to Mutt from Netscape. I wanted to keep track of which messages had been read and which hadn't (out of a mailbox of thousands). Netscape stores the message status information in two message header fields, X-Mozilla-Status and X-Mozilla-Status2, while Mutt stores this information in the standard Status field.
In order to make the move to Mutt, I wrote a small perl script to convert the Netscape status headers to standard status headers. I can pass this on if anyone needs it, but it won't be much help here (it won't keep the status flags in sync across both mailboxes).
The short answer is that you can read the messages in both clients over an NFS share, but the message status will not be transferable.
Just a FYI, Chris Same problem with mutt and kmail, but the other way around, I use mutt to quickly vet mail and kmail at more leisure. The status flags get lost .. sadly. Cliff