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Re: Netscape mail on windows & linux
On Mon, 11 May 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 1998, Yuval El-Hanany wrote:
>
> > I've been wondering whether it's possible to point my Linux netscape
> > & the NT netscape to the same mailboxes. When I looked briefly it seems
> > that on NT there's an extra .snm files for each folders. I was wondering
>
> last time I checked, Unix versions of Messanger used standard mbox format,
> and windows has those index files. mbox is known as a very popular format
> on Unix (exchangeable between elm, mutt, mh, mailx, pine, etc) but the
> indexed format in windows is probably faster. the main mailbox could have
> still been kept as mbox but they didn't do it...
There are index files on Unix too. The name format for each <folder> is
.<folder>.summary, e.g., "Sent" and ".Sent.summary".
I guess Linux and NT can maintain their own index files in the same
directory without any conflict. However, when a folder gets updated in
one OS, index files in the other OS will still have old information, so
some records may not appear when you use Netscape in the other OS. I
share one folder between pine (my main mailer) and Netscape (for HTML
messages). When I save a message into this folder using pine, it does
not appear in Netscape even after I restart it.
One solution is to delete all relevant index files before starting
Netscape, and they will be created anew.
Andy
Dr Andy Tsouladze
Unix System Administrator
Motorola Communications Israel
mailto:andyt@mcil.comm.mot.com
mailto:andy@spl.co.il (old)
mailto:andy@environment.negev.k12.il
http://www.spl.co.il/~andy