[clue-talk] moving Mozilla email

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:42:31 -0700 (MST)
dperkins at techangle.com wrote:

> The new computer already has Inbox, Sent, etc.  I need to merge mail
> from the old system with the new one.  Renaming the mail folders on the
> old machine seemed to be the easiest way to do this.  I hadn't
> considered Local Folders.

I haven't tried it, but since Mbox files are plain text (albeit maybe with
encoded stuff in them), but it might be possible to simply append them
together. Backups will be your friend should you decide to try it out.

> What are the msf files?  I thought they might be some sort of index
> file, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/mail-news.html

MSF == Mail Summary File.

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