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Re: Netscape mail on windows & linux



On Mon, 11 May 1998, Dr Andy Tsouladze wrote:

> > last time I checked, Unix versions of Messanger used standard mbox format,
...
> > 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


nonono... the Unix version uses standard mbox, plus indexes (sorry I
wasn't clear about that) so it is readable by other common unix software,
but the NT/95 version is no mbox, but some other DIFFERENT format as far
as I saw. you may step over your mail!
now unless they changed this in ver 4 (I checked in 3 last) you will run
over the files and currupt the mail in them. make backups before testing!