email: socs/pine to calmail?

I have hundreds of stored mail folders on socrates that I've
used 
with elm (bless it's heart) and use to this day with Pine,
from which 
I sometimes read Calmail by IMAP.

Has anyone worked through the details of pushing mail
folders up to 
the IMAP sever from socrates?

I have SFTP'd such folders to my pc, renamed them { }.mbx
and put 
them in Eudora's home directory, then made a matching folder
on IMAP 
and dragged the mail across. Tedious, and I seem to recall
that the 
date or "from" gets nicked.

BTW, can T-bird read folders in standard unix mail format
like those 
I use with Pine? I've heard here that there would be one
less step in 
not having to create target mail folders on IMAP.


Thanks,

Ted Crum
Psychology Dept.


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Ted Crum wrote:
> I have hundreds of stored mail folders on socrates that
I've used with 
> elm (bless it's heart) and use to this day with Pine,
from which I 
> sometimes read Calmail by IMAP.
> 
> Has anyone worked through the details of pushing mail
folders up to the 
> IMAP sever from socrates?
> 
> I have SFTP'd such folders to my pc, renamed them {
}.mbx and put them 
> in Eudora's home directory, then made a matching folder
on IMAP and 
> dragged the mail across. Tedious, and I seem to recall
that the date or 
> "from" gets nicked.
> 
> BTW, can T-bird read folders in standard unix mail
format like those I 
> use with Pine? I've heard here that there would be one
less step in not 
> having to create target mail folders on IMAP.

I haven't tried it, but I believe both pine and Thunderbird
use standard 
Unix mbox format, so if you copy the mailboxes to your
Thunderbird 
directory, they should just show up in Thunderbird.  I
think.

-- 
Tom Holub (tomLS.Berkeley.EDU, 510-642-9069)
Director of Computing, College of Letters & Science
249 Campbell Hall
<http://LS.berkeley.e
du/lscr/>

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Tom Holub wrote:
> I haven't tried it, but I believe both pine and
Thunderbird use standard
> Unix mbox format, so if you copy the mailboxes to your
Thunderbird
> directory, they should just show up in Thunderbird.  I
think.

Unix Pine mailbox files should transfer fine. PC-Pine local
mailboxes
will probably need to have a binary header removed if the
default format
(not mbox) is used. I also found that Tb liked the headers
in a
different order from the PC files when I moved local mail
folders from
PC-Pine to Tb 1.5. I think this was a quirk of the PC
format, though.

Since this is a Unix original set, I'd just copy one to Tb,
subscribe to
it, and see what happens.

Graham

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Graham Patterson, System Administrator
Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley


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