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[Culemming]

I am new to Netscape, and very new to SillyDog701, and am looking for some help in importing some e-mail files that I have saved on a webmail server.

I had been using Eudora, but that was not working as I am studying abroad for a semester in Germany, and for sending out e-mail I was forced to use my school's webmail server for a short time. (SquirrelMail version 1.4.2) Domain: **@clemson.edu. I would like to be able to save the emails that I sent out on my computer, and found how to download them from the server as EML files, which I can double click and open in Netscape, but is there a way to import them into my sent mail folder? I know this can be done from Outlook, Eudora, etc. but I couldn't find any help on importing files from webmail or doing it manually. It would seem logical to me that there would be a folder that I could copy these files to, but I have not been able to find it.

I am using Windows 2k if that is needed.

Thanks for your help, and sorry if I am repeating a post, I searched first, but couldn't seem to find anyone who had this same problem.

-jay

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[Fulvio]

You can't import files from Webmails, that I know.

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[Culemming]

Not even a way to import files manually huh? guess it'll have to be suggested to netscape for later versions. thanks for the help though,
-jay

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[akbash]

Well if you want to do it manually...

A Netscape mail folder is just a single file containing a sequential list of messages. EMLs, one after another. I'm not certain whether this would work with all EMLs from all sources. And I'm not certain that it would work with an IMAP mail account. But you could try this. It's known to work with individual EMLs exported from Netscape (Mozilla, actually) into a POP3 account.

To each of your downloaded EML files, prepend a "received date" line. Make it look like the line that begins each message in one of your extant mail folders. Like this, say:

From - Mon May 03 12:00:00 2004

and make sure the file ends with a blank line. Now in your profile/Mail/<account name> directory, cat all these downloaded and slightly modified EMLs together into a new file, named whatever you like. Woogums, say. Launch Netscape. You should have a fully functional Woogums local mail folder containing those messages.

This shouldn't be dangerous, but as always, make a backup of your profile before experimenting.

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[Erg]

Hello everybody!

This is my first message here, and I hope it will be useful.

Until today I was using "Mozilla Mail". I had the same problem, and I tried to find a free software to decode EML files I received from a friend. Now I'm using "Incredimail", http://www.incredimail.com/ You can associate EML files with this free software (no commercial message here): http://email.about.com/cs/incredimailtips/qt/et012204.htm All you have to do next is to double click on the EML file of your choice.

I think this is a time-saving solution.

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[Fulvio]

.eml is a Microsoft format, and Incredimail is geared toward such files.
I have been able to convert .eml files to .txt files, and thus bringing into Netscape, but not directly.

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[braincookie]

Well, I didn't want to do it manually, so i wrote the following little dos batch Just copy and paste it to a file called something like EMLtoNetscape.bat and
execute it from the dos prompt. The rest is rather self-explaining

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@echo off
echo ===========================================
echo This batch file creates a NetscapeMail compatible mailbox out of
echo several *.eml files. The *.eml files must all be in the same
echo directory. Copy the created file into Netscapes mailbox folder
echo (see Edit - Mail&Newsgroups Account Settings - Local Folders)
echo Upon the next start of Netscape (close Mail & Browser),
echo the new folder will show in Netscape's folder pane.
echo Tested with Netscape 7.2 and DBXtract-generated *.eml files.
echo Copyright by Sebastian Kanzow 2005
echo ===========================================
if [%1]==[] goto Err1
if [%2]==[] goto Err1
echo %2 | find "."
if NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Err2
echo From > %2
set EMLTEST=0
for %%a in (%1\*.eml) do (
set EMLTEST=1
echo Adding "%%a" to %2...
type "%%a" >> %2
echo From >> %2
)
if %EMLTEST%==0 echo Warning: No *.eml files in %1
echo ===========================================
echo FINISHED
echo ===========================================
exit /b
:Err1
echo Usage: %0 Folder_containing_eml_files Name_of_mailbox_to_create
exit /b
:Err2
echo Error: The mailbox name may not have an extension

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As a reply to akbash :


>Well if you want to do it manually...
>A Netscape mail folder is just a single file containing a sequential list of >messages. EMLs, one after another. I'm not certain whether this would
>work with all EMLs from all sources. And I'm not certain that it would
>work with an IMAP mail account. But you could try this. It's known to
>work with individual EMLs exported from Netscape (Mozilla, actually) into
>a POP3 account.

>To each of your downloaded EML files, prepend a "received date" line.
>Make it look like the line that begins each message in one of your extant
>mail folders.

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