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Συντάκτης: George Schlossnagle
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Προς: Phil Brutsche
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Αντικείμενο: Re: [Exim] Replacing Netscape Messaging w/ Exim and mailbox formatquestions
Phil Brutsche wrote:
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> A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
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> > 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.


This method works great for _a_ user, but poorly for an entire company
of them.
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> 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.
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> And you're right - it would rule to have ie a perl script to do such a
> thing :)
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