SillyDog701

[vudutu]

I have come to the sad conclusion that I have to ween myself and clients off of Netscape because of the total lack of any import and export capability, certainly none in the software nor can I find any utility to do so. I have been a loyal supporter for years but I give up. There is no provision to even allow a move to a new machine.

See my earlier post "Netscape mail move nightmare" or read the sad story below.

VUDUTU

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I do hope someone here has an answer. Hours of failed attempts and web searches have yielded little info. The lack of an import and export in recent Netscape versions has me looking toward, heaven forbid, Microsuck products. This lack of import/export is a serious flaw that has long plagued Netscape. I used to be able to do this in 4x products by moving folders but not in recent releases.

I am attempting to migrate a friend from a Black Firewire Mac laptop running OSX 10.2.6 and Netscape 7.0 in classic mode to a Mac Titanium OSX 10.2.6 running Netscape 7.1.

The black laptop has 7 running in classice mode but appeares to store the mail files in the OSX user folder rather than the netscape prefs folder in the os 9 folder as previous versions did.
The path is user/documents/mozilla/profiles/default/hpr5iqsu.slt/mail/mail.(her ISPs mailservername) .com.

I confirmed the location of the mail files by sending an email from the old machine and then searching for recently modified files and locating the mail files. I have then moved the mozilla folder to the new machine and created a new user with the same name on the Titanium. I then tried every combination of files/ folders moves of the mail files I can think of to
get the mail and address to show up on the new machine but to no avail.

The other odd thing is the files are not named the user name but appear under the default, also the old files will not show up in the profile manager.

I can find some rather convoluted instructions on the web to do this under Microsuck OSes but nothing on OSX. Is there no utility or simple way to do this? I can't be the only one with this problem, why is import/export built in?

Thanks,
VUDUTU

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)

[humpd]

There is an import/export function in Manage Bookmarks and an import function in the email client in Mozilla 1.5 and Netscape 7.1 for Windows. I do not know exactly what the problem you are having is but, then again, I do not use a Mac so I may be way off base here. I would think that installing Netscape (or, Mozilla 1.5 which is better in my opinion and has active support ) on a new machine and then copying the necessary files and storing them on a floppy or on a CD and then pasting them into the appropriate files on the new machine would be relatively easy. I guess I do not understand exactly what your problem is. Maybe someone else (who uses a Mac) can be of more help. I hate to see people give up on Netscape or not at least try Mozilla.

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

[Wellander]

Hi,
That is sad.
Why are you doing that?

UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

[Fulvio]

I have come to the sad conclusion that I have to ween myself and clients off of Netscape because of the total lack of any import and export capability, certainly none in the software nor can I find any utility to do so.
VUDUTU

This is another misunderstanding. I do not know enough about Macs to tell you how to do it, but if you expect to import or import the entire mail account, it will not work, but if the account information is set exactly the same way in both OSs, you can copy the Inbox, and Sent folder from one profile .slt|Mail folder to another one. This is done in a PC. Unfortunately, I have not found such an excellent guide for Mac, as it is in PC, but the file names should not be different.
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/index6.html#7profile

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) (CK-SillyDog)

[vudutu]

Thanks for the info, so far though nothing is working , I am going to try one more time tonight. My point is any viable mail application should have a method to move files. If nothing decent documentation on which files and how to move.
VUDUTU

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