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Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2008 18:11:03 -0800
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Mail Migration (Conversion ?)

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Thunderbird does not necessarily put the whole mailbox into a single
box. I have separate mailboxes for each project I do and as well, at
the end of each month, put non-project mail into an archive which
contains all the other mail for each month. I have a folder as a
subfolder of my main mailbox (NOT a subfolder of inbox) that's call
MailArchive. It winds up being an index for a subdirectory of my tbird
mailbox that contains mailboxes called, for example, 200807, 200808,
200809, 200810, and the one I made on Monday called 200811. When
projects are completed, those folders move into a similiar subdirectory
called CompletedProjects but maintain their own discrete contents and
the CompletedProjects folder just has the index to the whole list of
separate folders.

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Robert Blair wrote:

>** Reply to message from "John H. Lindsay" on Fri, 5
>Dec 2008 11:42:44 -0800
>
>
>
>>>While people are on this topic, I'll ask a question again in case anyone
>>>
>>>
>> > new here knows the answer (I asked long ago): I know that the mail
>> > files are of a common format, but does anyone know where to find a
>> > definition of the mail file format, perhaps in the source code of one of
>> > the open source mail and news readers ?
>>
>>Robert Blair replied:
>> > I think we need more information. What email client are you
>> > referring to?
>>
>>Thunderbird -- both Wxx and OS/2 / eCS versions.
>>
>> > Each email client stores its email in a different way. Although
>> > they may save the email in very similar ways they all do not do it
>> > in exactly the same way. .....
>>
>>Rats! That was not what I had understood. I was under the impression
>>that all the NetScape/Mozzilla news/mail readers used essentially
>>the same format. Still, I hope that there is enough commonality
>>among those that I could write a program to merge 2 (or several) mail
>>boxes worth of mail/news into one.
>>
>>
>
>I would not count on them being 100% compatible. If you are going from
>NetScape/Mozzilla to Thunderbird/Seamonkey you may be able to just copy the
>files. I would do some testing before trying to use them so you don't lose any
>data.
>
>
>
>
>> > ..... The email client I use saves the email
>> > exactly as received, each email in its own file. .....
>>
>>Ha! That's what I would have done, thinking back to OS/360/370/...
>>partitioned data sets.
>>
>>
>
>Yeh, the good old days.
>
>
>
>
>> > ...... Others do some
>> > editing especially with regards to attachments and some make some
>> > changes (sometimes sufficient changes to the headers) and some store
>> > all the email in large files with separators for each email.
>>
>>Oh bother! Thunderbird (&c.?) puts all the e-mail/postings in of one
>>mailbox/newsgroup in one file.
>>
>>
>
>Yes.
>
>
>
>
>> > If you want to know the format of email while it is being
>> > transmitted look at RFC5321 and 5322.
>>
>>??? RFC ???
>>
>>
>
>"Request For Comment" once an RFC is approved it becomes the standard for the
>internet for whatever it is describing.
>
>The description for how email is formatted and shipped from computer to
>computer is described in RFC5321 and 5322. There are older (now obsolete) RFCs
>but these are the current.
>
>
>

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