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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:21:25 PST8
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.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.

I do not know that it is possible.

> Or exporting the mail itself, for that matter.

Mail is trivial, going forward. Even works cross platform. Going
back? Maybe not.
>
>>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.

Why would you want to brute force the bookmark files when you have a
good tool for editing?

> 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.

Not to worry.

Ray

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