[Coco] Importing CoCo Archive into Email Client

[Ryan Pritchard]

Thunderbird will work fine, but you need to copy the archive files to  
the folder I listed.  The final folder is some random set of numbers,  
I chose the one that was modified the day I was copying the file, as I  
had just run Thunderbird to test the import.  Then by the magic of a  
Google search for Thunderbird and mbox, I found instructions that said  
just copy the mailbox file to a folder and run Thunderbird again.  As  
soon as you run Thunderbird the file you just copied to that folder  
appears as a mail folder and is all formatted into individual e-mails.

Regards,

Ryan Pritchard
Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies



On 24-Apr-09, at 7:45 AM, N8WQ wrote:

> I am using Windows Vista Home Premium edition, service pack 1.  
> However I also have Windows XP Professional edition on my other hard  
> drive partition. I can also boot into Linux if I want via my thumb  
> drive or my external usb drive. I have a Gentoo version of Linux on  
> my thumb drive and Slax 6.0.9 on my external usb drive. I am not a  
> Linux guru, still learning here...
>
> Is there some type of viewer I could use to look at the CoCo Archive?
>
> O. Alan Jones
>
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> Ryan Pritchard wrote:
>> 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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