Chris Reeves schrieb:
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.
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.
Now then, as I find Lx-Netscape by far too primitive in using compared to windoze-ns 4.73, I would also drop it and use mutt. Now, why did you come from mutt, I find it much handier to use. is there any way to convert the ns-mbox format to clean mutt mbox ===== format? i mean including the flags that your script does not convert as you said.
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 --
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