Re: [Exim] Replacing Netscape Messaging w/ Exim and mailbox …

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Lähettäjä: Phil Brutsche
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Aihe: Re: [Exim] Replacing Netscape Messaging w/ Exim and mailbox formatquestions
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> In the NT version of NMS, it looks like each message is a separate
> text file, but with a 256-byte binary header, probably containg the
> flags for read, replied, etc. Anyone know the details of that header?
> I suppose it might be possible to write a translator that used the
> IMAP protocol, and opened up the an account on both the old NMS server
> and a new server, and copied the messages between them, maintaining
> any flags.


I find that when you need to move your email message store from one format
to another, this is the easiest thing to do - just drag-and-drop (or
whatever your email client does) to folders from one IMAP server to the
other.

And you're right - it would rule to have ie a perl script to do such a
thing :)

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