To answer your first question, no, there is no way to import your Netscape 7.1 mail DIRECTLY to Outlook or Outlook Express. You have to copy the Netscape 7.1 mail filess into Netscape Communicator first, then go from there.
I found this with a groups.google search.
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From: Terry Li[MSFT] (snip)@online.microsoft.com)
Subject: RE: Import Netscape 7.0 mail and address book
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.general
Date: 2003-06-02 10:26:58 PST
(snip)
I am sorry to tell that there is no direct way for us to import the data from
Netscape 7.0 to Outlook. We understand your needs to easily transfer the data from Netscape to Outlook, and hope we can provide this feature in Outlook.
However, the technical information about the Netscape data formats are not provided to Microsoft and Microsoft is not authorized to develop such kinds of import/export engines or converters. I am sorry if this causes any inconvenience.
However, I found that we can use the following steps to work around this
issue:
1. Install an earlier version of Netscape. (For example, Netscape 4.77)
2. In the older version of Netscape, import the data from Netscape 7.0
3. Use the information in the following articles to import data from the
earlier version of Netscape into Outlook:
242008 OL2000: How to Import Messages and Addresses from Netscape Messenger 4.5
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=242008
291601 OL2002: How to Import Messages and Addresses from Netscape Messenger 4.5
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=291601
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From: Gord McFee (snip)
Subject: Re: Migrating from NS7 to OL2002 - Going nuts...
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Date: 2003-09-28 07:20:33 PST
(snip)
>
> Is there any (ANY) way of getting NS7 files with many emails (~15000)
> and a sizeable number of contacts (~1000) into Outlook - or is there
> any other proven workaround going through other programs? Does anyone
> maybe know of some tool that uses the OLE automation features of
> Outlook 2002 to read RFC822 mbox format and writes folders and
> mails/attachmeents?
If I have understood you correctly, here is the way I have done it.
First, import the NS7 message files to Netscape Communicator. It's just a
matter of copying all the messages files (the ones *without* a suffix) to
the appropriate folder in Communicator, with both programs closed. Run
Communicator once and access all of the folders so the index files are
created. Then import into Outlook Express. This always works for me.
(The only problem is that sometimes nested folders are not "found".
The workaround is to move them all to the root folder and renest them
afterwards.) Then export the messages from Outlook Express to Outlook.
For the address book, export it as a .ldif file. That imports directly into
Outlook Express.
Then the export to Outlook should be easy from Files -> Export.
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by Tiembo » Tue 18 Nov, 2003 4:27 pm 
