Netscape E-mail Client 1

[jisoo22]

Hello all,

I have a user in my office that's moving to a slightly newer computer. She's using Netscape Communicator 4.06 for browsing and it's email client for email. Does anyone know how to export email out of the Netscape 4.06 client so I can put it in her newer computer? I thought there was an export option like in Outlook but I can't find it.

Thanks,
Jisoo22

 

[InnoTech]

as far as email, i'm not for sure but the address book is pretty easy to do. here is the directions on how to export the address book. if we can find how to export the email, i would just forward all email to her same email address and when you set the new pc up it will all download.


Start Netscape Communicator, and sign-in to your email account as your normally would.

From the Communicator menu, select the Address Book option

This will bring up the address book manager

From the File menu, select Save As

This will bring up the dialog box allowing you to save the address book to any location. In this example, we will save it to a diskette (drive a and name the file addrbook. Address book files by default will have a file type extension of .ldif.

Click the Save button to save the file to the diskette.

You can now close the Address Book Manager by selecting Close from the File menu.
The addrbook.ldif file you have just saved can now be imported into any other computer which uses Netscape Communicator.
"Jack of all trades. Master of none."

 

[InnoTech]

ok i think i found something after a little looking (i don't like to give up).

you should be able to select all the data files in [Program files, Netscape, Users, "oldprofile", Mail] and copy them to disk and paste them to the same folder on the new machine. does this help?
"Jack of all trades. Master of none."

 

[jisoo22]

That should give me an idea of what to do, thanks! But now I have a little twist to my dilemma. On the same computer, the user is moving from Netscape 4.06 to the newest version of Outlook Express (Mac OS). Is there any smooth way of exporting email from Netscape and importing into Outlook Express?

Thanks,
Jisoo22

 

[InnoTech]

i would think that would be a built in feature. you can in windows but i don't know about MAC. i'll look around though. "Jack of all trades. Master of none."