On Thursday 17 July 2003 09:42 pm, Sambit Nanda wrote: > I asked this question before but did not get any > answer, > I am using Mozilla on RH, I have more than 3000 > mails on my local folder, I like to export all the > message and take backup, I did not find any option to > export messages, what is the best way to take backup > of all message, Last time i did a tar of .Mozilla > directory, but that is not a correct solution if iu > want to extract message some where else like outlook > express. > In normal practise, what is the best way to handel
It's very easy. Mozilla stores mail in mbox format, meaning, it's just flat file. So you can copy around that files, and do whatever you want. First, go to your .mozilla/your_profile_name/*.slt/Mail/ your_profile_name should be "default" if you haven't created your own profile. You should see the "Local Folders" directory there. Go to that directory, and you should see something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Local Folders]$ ls Drafts Sent Templates Trash Unsent Messages Those are the files you want to copy for export, backup, etc. You should have Inbox file too. In my case, since my account is POP account from another server, I have the files in directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.mypopserver.edu]$ pwd ~/.mozilla/default/zrztkfnk.slt/Mail/mail.mypopserver.edu/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail.mypopserver.edu]$ ls Drafts Inbox.msf popstate.dat Templates Inbox msgFilterRules.dat Sent Trash So, you can backup your other account too. Now, to import it to another mail client, if the mail client read mbox format (most of them can), just copy the Inbox file (probably rename it to something else to avoid conflict) to the mail directory of that client. For example, to import those file to my Kmail, I can just do $> cp Inbox ~/Mail/mozillaInbox and I will have a folder mozillaInbox in Kmail. In respond to other poster, I don't know if outlook reads mbox format. It should be able too, if its developers had any sense. I never use outlook, and never will. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
