opening and searching old staroffice mails

[Bernard <bdebreil@teaser.fr>]

Hi to Everyone,

I need to search old mails that I had received through StarOffice 5.1 
and StarOffice 5.2. The mail files had the extension '.sdm'. One cannot 
edit them correctly with any text editor, StarOffice is needed for that. 
Today, OpenOffice.org that I run under Debian Lenny, no longer deals 
with mail. So, I made an attempt to re-install StarOffice 5.2 on to an 
old computer on which I reinstalled RedHat 7.2, since I doubt if Soffice 
5.2 would run on Lenny.

This being done, I don't know how to go any further. I could read my 
.sdm files, but most of this old mail has not been storaged under sdm 
files, and I remember having been able to recuperate ancient mails from 
a file of that sort :

 /home/user/office52/store/myidentifierpopfreefrpop3.scs'

I have found several of such files in storaged volumes (CD and external 
HD). But, so far, installing them in my new '/home/user/office52/store' 
directory, did not lead to any success. One of this files is 53.4 MB, 
and could hold the mails that I am searching.

Would anyone in here have some experience in recuperating old mail files 
from StarOffice ?

About 3 years ago, I had asked a similar advice in a Staroffice or 
openoffice mailing list, but I had obtained no useful reply.

Thanks in advance for your help