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Mail Issues #2...
Well, I switched from Netrape Aggravator to the Mac Mail program for the interim.
So far, I can't get any of the obvious applications to open (a copy of) the original mail file. Word of course doesn't recognize it, TextEdit refuses it, and when I tried:
"formail -e -d -s inboxfile >> newinboxfile"
(substituting "Inbox" for "inboxfile" and "NewInbox" for "newinboxfile")
my console just sorta sat there for, well, a long time until I finally killed it off. There was a new file called "NewInbox", but it had nothing in it.
Any more ideas? I've got like 1.2GB of mail file sitting there mocking me. I'm sure MOST of it must be perfectly fine.
So far, I can't get any of the obvious applications to open (a copy of) the original mail file. Word of course doesn't recognize it, TextEdit refuses it, and when I tried:
"formail -e -d -s inboxfile >> newinboxfile"
(substituting "Inbox" for "inboxfile" and "NewInbox" for "newinboxfile")
my console just sorta sat there for, well, a long time until I finally killed it off. There was a new file called "NewInbox", but it had nothing in it.
Any more ideas? I've got like 1.2GB of mail file sitting there mocking me. I'm sure MOST of it must be perfectly fine.
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Suggestion?
1. Download Thunderbird.
2. Tell Thunderbird to import the Netscape mailbox.
3. Then tell Mail.app to import the resultant TBird mailbox. (Mail.app is happy to import TBird mailboxes; I'm assuming TBird gave earlier Netscape users a slick upgrade path.)
4. Remove TBird.
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Trying the "import", it gives me two options: Communicator 4.x and Eudora. I know Netrape 7 descends from Communicator, so I tried that; it gives no option to tell Thunderbird WHERE to find the files in question, but it went gray and seemed to be looking, so I left it alone. After about half an hour, it finally just went back to the two choices; examination did not show my mail in any folder.