[Coco] Importing CoCo Archive into Email Client

[Ryan Pritchard]

What operating system you running?  That would give us a better idea of what
to recommend.
Myself I am using Mac OS X Leopard and the Mail.app imports standard mailbox
files which I had referred to as mbox format.  These are the raw text
(sometimes mime encoded) files that are found in the archive.

If you run pretty much any Linux distribution you should be able to use mutt
or pine to open the file in a more usable format.  These are both text based
programs you run from a command prompt.

For Windows and any OS that Thunderbird runs on you can just copy those
extracted txt files to the Local Folders folder in the Thunderbird Profile.
example: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application
Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\67352c8t.default\Mail\Local Folders

Close and open Thunderbird and the mailbox is imported automatically.  You
are now free to move the messages to whatever other folder you want.
<file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/Application%20Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/67352c8t.default/Mail/Local%20Folders/2003-October.mbox>

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies



On 23-Apr-09, at 7:36 AM, N8WQ wrote:

I am using Thunderbird email client here. When I go to "Tools - Import -
Mail" I get these options:
Communicator 4.x
Eudora
Outlook
Outlook Express

Which one should I try so I don't make a mess of it? If necessary, I can
install a different email client just so I can view the CoCo Archive in a
user friendly format.

O. Alan Jones

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N8WQ - Canal Winchester, Ohio
http://exwn8jef.googlepages.com/home



Ryan Pritchard wrote:

Oh sweet!  For giggles I just downloaded the Gzipped text versions and
discovered they are standard mbox format, my Mail.app imported them and now
I have all the way back to October 2003 in my client.




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