Exporting Netscape Messenger to HTML 8
Chris Carlin
asks: "I've been useing Netscape Messenger for
years as my main email client, and I think it works great for
my needs. Anyway, I tend to be a packrat with email and save
just about everything. As a result I now have thousands of
messages organized and taking up much space on my hard drive
and I'd just plain like to get the stuff off my disk onto CD.
I'd like to export in such a way that I won't need Communicator
to read them at a later date, which brings me (finally) to my
question: since Netscape doesn't seem to have a way of exporting
all messages to a tree of directories of HTML files, is there
a program that could? What else could I do with them that would
preserve the oragnization but not require that I keep a copy of
Netscape on the computer forever if I want to have access to
the email?"
Std Unix format (Score:1)
Use IMAP + hypermail (Score:1)
In the case of Netscape for UNIX, you do not have to go through that step, as its mailboxes are already in UUCP format.
Then use the package 'hypermail' to convert these mailboxes to HTML pages.
Another alternative would be to use the MH 'inc' command, to separate each mail into a separate MH-style file, and perhaps do a 'scan +folder > indexfile'.
In the same vein ... (Score:1)
And don't say I should'nt have used it in the first place; I already know it, that's why I'm moving.
Thanx !
Etyenne
Shouldn't be too hard (Score:1)
Have a look at Hypermail for nice HTML translating and threading, that's just the first thing that comes to mind.