Re: How to recover email?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 08/23/08 20:03, Thomas H. George wrote:
> When a harddrive was failing I managed to copy the contents of 
> /home/tom.  This includes a file 
> /home/tom/.mozilla/tom/Mail/mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox containing three 
> years of email - mostly junk, but containing a few gems I would like to 
> recover.  I reinstalled lenny and iceape and created a new mailbox.  
> When I try to import the recovered file the only option is Communicator 
> 4.x and nothing is imported.

Shutdown iceape and then simply cat (append) the saved Inbox file 
onto the current mail.tomgeorge.info/Inbox.

This works because Netscape/Mozilla stores emails in mbox format.

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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