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import netscape 6.2 to outlook
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You might want to see if Dawn5 would do the job for you (I have never used it)
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Indu
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Here is a solution (to import mail) from Edward Diener.
Hope that helps.
Indu
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First of all, despite what anyone says, you can't import your mail from NS 6.2 into OE by telling OE to import from Netscape Communicator and then pointing to a Netscape 6.2 mail directory. Although it will look like OE is picking up your mail structure, it will fail to pick up your e-mail because it is looking for the Netscape Communicator .snm files and for each of the normal mail files with no extension.
Therefore, in order to import your Netscape 6.2 mail, you need to convert it to Netscape Communicator mail and to do this you need a copy of Netscape Communicator on your computer. The latest copy is freely downloadable from Netscape on the web so you can grab it and install it if you don't already have it.
OK, here are the steps:
1) Copy your Netscape 6.2 mail structure for any particular mail client to somewhere else on your system. This will be a temporary copy and you will be deleting it afterward so don't be afraid to copy it to some top level directory which you can create off of a drive letter. Be sure to pick up the whole structure.
2) Go through that structure and eliminate all of the .msf files in all the various directories and subdirectories.
3) Open Netscape Communicator and choose Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Mail Servers and change the local mail directory to where you have copied the previous NS 6.2 structure.
4) Shut down Communicator and start it again.
5) Click on the mail icon and the mail portion will come up.
6) Click on every mail folder and subfolder being displayed to get Communicator to create .snm files for everything. When you are finished with every folder and subfolder you can exit Communicator.
7) Open Outlook or OE and choose File | Import | Messages.. and choose Netscape Communicator from the list. Now ignore whatever Outlook finds as the email client for Communicator and choose the directory you have created before.
8) Outlook will now present a directory structure of folders to import and you can choose any which you want or all of them. Now tell it to import and Outlook will now pick up your messages and folders. Don't worry if it gives
you errors. You might have to go back to individual folders in the Outlook display and import them again, but when you are finished you should have all of your NS 6.2 messages, and you can delete the previously created directory
strcuture.
9) You can repeat 1) through 8) for each NS 6.2 mail client, and you can move your folders around in Outlook as you like.
Hope that helps.
Indu
_______________________________________
First of all, despite what anyone says, you can't import your mail from NS 6.2 into OE by telling OE to import from Netscape Communicator and then pointing to a Netscape 6.2 mail directory. Although it will look like OE is picking up your mail structure, it will fail to pick up your e-mail because it is looking for the Netscape Communicator .snm files and for each of the normal mail files with no extension.
Therefore, in order to import your Netscape 6.2 mail, you need to convert it to Netscape Communicator mail and to do this you need a copy of Netscape Communicator on your computer. The latest copy is freely downloadable from Netscape on the web so you can grab it and install it if you don't already have it.
OK, here are the steps:
1) Copy your Netscape 6.2 mail structure for any particular mail client to somewhere else on your system. This will be a temporary copy and you will be deleting it afterward so don't be afraid to copy it to some top level directory which you can create off of a drive letter. Be sure to pick up the whole structure.
2) Go through that structure and eliminate all of the .msf files in all the various directories and subdirectories.
3) Open Netscape Communicator and choose Edit | Preferences | Mail & Newsgroups | Mail Servers and change the local mail directory to where you have copied the previous NS 6.2 structure.
4) Shut down Communicator and start it again.
5) Click on the mail icon and the mail portion will come up.
6) Click on every mail folder and subfolder being displayed to get Communicator to create .snm files for everything. When you are finished with every folder and subfolder you can exit Communicator.
7) Open Outlook or OE and choose File | Import | Messages.. and choose Netscape Communicator from the list. Now ignore whatever Outlook finds as the email client for Communicator and choose the directory you have created before.
8) Outlook will now present a directory structure of folders to import and you can choose any which you want or all of them. Now tell it to import and Outlook will now pick up your messages and folders. Don't worry if it gives
you errors. You might have to go back to individual folders in the Outlook display and import them again, but when you are finished you should have all of your NS 6.2 messages, and you can delete the previously created directory
strcuture.
9) You can repeat 1) through 8) for each NS 6.2 mail client, and you can move your folders around in Outlook as you like.
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