Re: [TCLUG:17658] email client -- NT dual boot

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

Philip C Mendelsohn wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 May 2000, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote:
> 
> > | 1) Is there an easy way to migrate data from Netscape mail folders to
> > | Pine mail folders?
> > |
> >
> > Probally not.
> 
> Actually, I bet you could.  I've looked at netscape mail folders, and they
> looked like plain old text files, same as the other mail formats I've
> seen.  If you couldn't just plug things in, I bet you could write some
> perl or sed to make them fit.
> 
> Of course, this is all theoretical -- I haven't done it myself! ;)

The main problem I see is that the NT version of Netscape (and probably
Pine, too) probably wants to use CRLF to mark the end of a line, while
they will just use LF in Linux.  That conversion could cause some
problems..

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