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Re: email client



On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 11:52:24PM +0200, Omer Zak wrote:
> Even if you can't convert your mailboxes from the format used by your OS/2
> program into the format used by Unix E-mail clients, you can accomplish
> this by causing your OS/2 client to send all messages in your mailbox to
> some address.  After sending the messages, switch to Linux and retrieve
> the messages into it from the above address.

That would be a pretty hefty operation, and will lose a lot of
information that may be useful.

I used MR2/ICE for a while. I seem to remember its message format
was readable... with a little luck PMMAIL/2 shows the same amount
of respect to its data (unlike some positively cretinous beasts of
the more "modern" [heh] variety).

Not to miss a chance, <hat> Perl is a great tool for this job.</hat>
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