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Dec. 12th, 2006 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrAs some of you how've known me for a long time may be aware, *way* back in the past I got my mail via uucp. And I used an odd assortment of programs to do this.
When I switched to Pegasus mail, I had a nicer mail program, but there didn't seem to be any easy way to move saved messages from the old setup over.
Then tonight something occurred to me. The old program saved messages as individual files. Plain text with all the headers. Pegasus saves new messages that way, and only when they get moved into folders do they become multiple messages per file.
The "new messages" are [textstring].cnm. My saved messages were [number].
Surely it couldn't be *that* easy?
A quick test proved that it actually was. So I'm busily moving *years* of old messages over. And this also means that I can (with difficulty) move over messages from any email program that'll let me save messages with full headers. So I may be able to move old messages from Agent & Netscape.
Yay!
When I switched to Pegasus mail, I had a nicer mail program, but there didn't seem to be any easy way to move saved messages from the old setup over.
Then tonight something occurred to me. The old program saved messages as individual files. Plain text with all the headers. Pegasus saves new messages that way, and only when they get moved into folders do they become multiple messages per file.
The "new messages" are [textstring].cnm. My saved messages were [number].
Surely it couldn't be *that* easy?
A quick test proved that it actually was. So I'm busily moving *years* of old messages over. And this also means that I can (with difficulty) move over messages from any email program that'll let me save messages with full headers. So I may be able to move old messages from Agent & Netscape.
Yay!
