[TML] email conversions (Was: Good work, Tod and Rob)

[Garry Ward]

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From: <shadow at shadowgard.com>
To: "The Traveller Mailing List" <tml at travellercentral.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TML] Good work, Tod and Rob


> On 15 Aug 2007 at 19:36, Garry Ward wrote:
>
>> > There are ways to convert entire mailboxes. I was trying to help a
>> > friend move stuff from one computer to another (and switching mailers
>> > in the process). It's doable, just annoying.
>> >
>> Any clue as to where I could uncover said ways?
>>
>> The mechanism I have at hand today is to open each email, do a Save As 
>> into
>> a disk folder and repeat until my eyes water and then come back to repeat 
>> in
>> a couple of days.
>
> I just did a google search with something like "email conversion".
>
> If you've got something like TextPad, you might try opening the
> folder files with it. I discovered that some email programs use
> "standard" (text only) file formats, but put their own extensions on
> the files. To convert those, all I had to do was copy the files and
> changfe the extensions.
>
Got notepad, not textpad. Also need to figure out where the actual mailboxes 
are located before I try that as well.

Garry
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