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Date:	Mon, 6 Jun 2005 19:31:18 PDT7
From:	Colin Campbell <cmcampb@adelphia.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: RE: Mail Filters

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jr_fox@pacbell.net wrote:
>>>Ray, how much time do you want?
>
>
>>It will depend on group interest. So far, you are the only one who
>>has expressed any. Since I have not seen NS 2.02 for several years, I
>>don't know that I have anything to offer regarding using 2.02 filters
>>under Mozilla products, so that won't take long.
>
>
> I'm not *quite* as far behind the curve as the Duckster, but I still have
> all of my mail in NS 4.61. Exporting existing filters from there to
> Mozilla does not appear to be a trivial affair to me. Or exporting the
> mail itself, for that matter.
>
>
>>Bookmarks are easy. I think I used my NS address books when I moved
>>to Mozilla. However, I tried to help someone setup Mozilla for Win
>>and it seems I had to export and import.
>
>
> Despite printed warnings not to, I used to edit the NS 4.61 bookmark files
> all the time, with impunity. The format of the Moz & later bookmarks looks
> to be somewhat different. For one thing, the separator space between
> entries is gone, and it is all squished together.
>
>
> Jordan

Jordan,
I found it pretty easy to "move" my mail from Netscape and the IBM Web
Browser to Mozilla. I did so in order to be able to find old
communications that I might need in the future, and I have gone back to
each a couple of times.

What I did was to locate the mail files. For instance, the Netscape
file was "F:\NETSCAPE\USERS\username\Mail5\Mail\mail". (I changed the
username for this example.) And the Web Browser file was
"C:\home\default\Mozilla\Profiles\default\6odekpu9.slt\Mail\mail".

I got this information from the settings in the older browsers before I
went to Mozilla.

Once Mozilla was up and running, I defined a new account (File, New,
Account) and called it "Netscape Account". I put the current e-mail
address, etc. in, and changed the

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