Netscape 4.80 backed up email - cannot restore

[mitts1129]

Backed up Netscape 4.80 user folder (email) and burned onto a CD. Tried to import into Outlook Express and only a fraction of the email appeared in the Inbox or other folders that contained email. Any ideas why? Also is there a limit (quota) to the size of the email folders? Some of them are 77,000 KB. Could this be the problem?

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[Fulvio]

There should be no limit, but with Win98, you have to make sure that Inbox is not as Read only. I don't know what can be imported by OE, since not all your folders could be the Inbox. I mean subfolders or other named folders.

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[mitts1129]

Thanks Fulvio. Good point.... the mail boxes don't have the same names in OE. The Inbox on old computer had over 700 messages and OE only imported 60. Hope I don't have to check each individual email for Read Only status! Both computers have Win 98 SE. I tried to set up a new user name in Netscape so I could import the mail there without overwriting what was in the boxes already, but Netscape kept getting an Illegal Operation Error and shut down. That's when I got the idea to import it into OE so that I could read it there. Is there any software (shareware) available that can read email saved on a CD? That way I wouldn't have to put it on the computer.

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[Fulvio]

I don't know about software, but most likely it would cost you.
As for your approach with Netscape and another username, which means a new profile, there is a very easy way to solve the problem. Locate your User folder on the Hard Drive, and the old profile|Mail|account name. Right click on the Inbox file, and select Copy, and then Paste in an empty are. Right click|Rename the file to anything other than Inbox. This file will contain all your Inbox mail, and you can right click|copy the renamed file, and paste into the new username folder. You do everything with Netscape closed, and ignore the .snm file. When you open Netscape, the next time you will find your mail, but in the renamed file.
You don't have to check the original message, but only the the Inbox file. All your messages are there. Now, if you have a problem with the renamed file showing only a limited number of messages, it is a different story.
You can have as many subfolders into Netscape, that there should be no reason for this achrobatics. I right click on the Inbox folder, in Netscape mail, and select New Profile, and name it.
It is a pain, if start with 700 e-mail, but not so bad if you split them up.
I panic if my Inbox has over 40 messages.
And, finally, if you really want to go to OE ( don't) this is from Microsoft.

Import Messages from Other E-Mail Programs

Using the Outlook Express Import Wizard, you can easily import e-mail messages from a variety of popular Internet e-mail programs, such as Netscape Communicator and Eudora, as well as from Exchange Server and Outlook.

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On the File menu, point to Import, and then click Messages.

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Select the e-mail program you want to import messages from, and then click Next.

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Verify the location of your messages, and then click Next.

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Choose All folders to import all the messages, and then click Next. You can also choose Selected Folders to import messages from one or more folders.

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Click Finish.

Note: If you are unsure which e-mail program and version you want to import messages from, start the e-mail program. On the Help menu, select About and check the information for program and version.

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