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Alimin Bijosono Oei <aliminbijosono@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<9l8hjq$v65$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>...
> Hi there,
> 
> I am using Mozilla 0.93 and also Netscape 6.1. The reason I upgraded to the new 
> version (Mozilla 0.92 to 0.93 and try Netscape 6.1) was because I was looking 
> for the import utility which I thought would have been fixed in the newer 
> version. Up till this moment, I still cannot use the import utility (Address 
> Book and Mail messages) successfully. When I run the import utility, under the 
> section 'Please select the program from which you would like to import:' the 
> only option there was 'Text' for AddressBook and none for Mail messages. I want 
> to import all my AddressBook entries and Mail messages stored under Outlook 
> Express setting in Windows and the help section of Mozilla/Netscape obviously 
> states that the import utility allows me to do that (I have exported 
> addressbook from outlook express in .cvs format which is tab or comma separated 
> text):
> 
> Importing Address Books and Mail Messages
> 
> If you have an address book from a previous version of Netscape Communicator or 
> another email program, you can add its entries to your personal address book. 
> When you import another address book, Mail creates a new address book with the 
> imported entries.
> 
> You can import address books and mail messages from Eudora, Outlook, and 
> Outlook Express. You can import the following types of address book file 
> formats: tab or comma separated text or LDIF. Netscape Communicator address 
> books use the LDIF format.
> 
> To export address book entries from Netscape Communicator so you can import 
> them into Netscape 6:
> 
>    1. In Netscape Communicator, choose Address Book from the Communicator menu.
>    2. Select the address book that you want to export.
>    3. From the File menu in the Address Book window, choose Export.
>    4. Type a name for the exported address book.
>    5. Choose the LDIF file format.
>    6. Click Save. Remember the location where you saved the address book file, 
> so you can find it when you're ready to import it into Netscape 6. The file 
> will have a .LDIF extension.
> 
> To import messages or address book files into Netscape 6:
> 
>    1. From the File menu in Netscape 6, choose Import.
>    2. Follow the instructions to import mail folders and address book files.
>    3. If you want to import a Netscape Communicator address book, choose "Text" 
> from the list in the second screen of the wizard.
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me with this? Thanks heaps.
> 
> Alimin


Importing mail from Outlook Express in Windows is a piece of cake but
I don't know about Linux.  All I can suggest is you make sure your
windows partition is mounted and hope that Mozilla can find the mail
or allows you to show it where OE's mail is located.

As for the address book, all you need to do it tell it the name of the
file.  You do select the text option as a cvs file is a text file. 
Once you have done this you should have all your addresses neatly
formatted in your Mozilla address book.  I have done it many times and
never had a problem.

Hope this helps cheers Zeph

I did the next:
[Windows]
- Install Mozilla (win32)
- Import mail (or anything else) from Mozilla (it found itself any 
mailer installed on Windows)

then ...

[Linux]
- Mount Windows partition (where you save "new" Mozilla mailbox)
- Set the path to mailbox in Mozilla (linux)

Windows and Linux, both will use the same mailbox.

I did it from Outlook 2000 (win32) to Mozilla 0.9.2 (linux) in a few 
minutes !

Bye and good luck !

Jose

Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I am using Mozilla 0.93 and also Netscape 6.1. The reason I upgraded to the new 
> version (Mozilla 0.92 to 0.93 and try Netscape 6.1) was because I was looking 
> for the import utility which I thought would have been fixed in the newer 
> version. Up till this moment, I still cannot use the import utility (Address 
> Book and Mail messages) successfully. When I run the import utility, under the 
> section 'Please select the program from which you would like to import:' the 
> only option there was 'Text' for AddressBook and none for Mail messages. I want 
> to import all my AddressBook entries and Mail messages stored under Outlook 
> Express setting in Windows and the help section of Mozilla/Netscape obviously 
> states that the import utility allows me to do that (I have exported 
> addressbook from outlook express in .cvs format which is tab or comma separated 
> text):
> 
> Importing Address Books and Mail Messages
> 
> If you have an address book from a previous version of Netscape Communicator or 
> another email program, you can add its entries to your personal address book. 
> When you import another address book, Mail creates a new address book with the 
> imported entries.
> 
> You can import address books and mail messages from Eudora, Outlook, and 
> Outlook Express. You can import the following types of address book file 
> formats: tab or comma separated text or LDIF. Netscape Communicator address 
> books use the LDIF format.
> 
> To export address book entries from Netscape Communicator so you can import 
> them into Netscape 6:
> 
>    1. In Netscape Communicator, choose Address Book from the Communicator menu.
>    2. Select the address book that you want to export.
>    3. From the File menu in the Address Book window, choose Export.
>    4. Type a name for the exported address book.
>    5. Choose the LDIF file format.
>    6. Click Save. Remember the location where you saved the address book file, 
> so you can find it when you're ready to import it into Netscape 6. The file 
> will have a .LDIF extension.
> 
> To import messages or address book files into Netscape 6:
> 
>    1. From the File menu in Netscape 6, choose Import.
>    2. Follow the instructions to import mail folders and address book files.
>    3. If you want to import a Netscape Communicator address book, choose "Text" 
> from the list in the second screen of the wizard.
> 
> 
> 
> Can anyone help me with this? Thanks heaps.
> 
> Alimin
> 
> 

In article <9l8hjq$v65$1@bugstomper.ihug.com.au>, "Alimin Bijosono Oei"
<aliminbijosono@yahoo.com> wrote:


> Hi there,
> I am using Mozilla 0.93 and also Netscape 6.1. The reason I upgraded to
> the new version (Mozilla 0.92 to 0.93 and try Netscape 6.1) was because
> I was looking for the import utility which I thought would have been
> fixed in the newer version. Up till this moment, I still cannot use the
> import utility (Address Book and Mail messages) successfully. When I run
> [etc]

Have you considered using mozilla's bugzilla system for reporting such
problems.   It requires a bit of fiddling to figure out how to use it,
but once you do, you can search their data base to see if someone else
has reported the same problem and if there are any workarounds.   One
should exercise care in reporting something as a "bug" if it may just be
a misunderstanding about how to use mozilla.
-- 

Leonard Evens      len@math.northwestern.edu      847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208

Alimin Bijosono Oei wrote:
> 
> So far I managed to only import the address book successfully but not with the
> mails. I have tried to import first all the mails into Mozilla which was
> installed in Windows, then I tried to set the path of the Local Folder of the
> Mozilla in Linux to the directory in Windows which is mounted where all the
> mails were imported from Outlook Espress before. The import process seemed to
> be alright because I could then see all the  folders but when I tried to open
> each folders, nothing happened. I couldn't  see all my mails. Could you tell me
> how did you do it succesfully?
> 
> Is that true that when you try to use the import utility for importing  the
> mails in Linux you can't see any option, can you? Whereas for address book
> importing process, there is at least one option i.e. 'Text'.
> If there is no option for mail importing, then the only way to do this is by
> setting the path of the Local Folder to the one in Windows partition, but why
> did I fail to do this?
> 
> Alimin
> 
> Jose Sanchez wrote:
> 
> > I did the next:
> > [Windows]
> > - Install Mozilla (win32)
> > - Import mail (or anything else) from Mozilla (it found itself any
> > mailer installed on Windows)
> >
> > then ...
> >
> > [Linux]
> > - Mount Windows partition (where you save "new" Mozilla mailbox)
> > - Set the path to mailbox in Mozilla (linux)
> >
> > Windows and Linux, both will use the same mailbox.
> >
> > I did it from Outlook 2000 (win32) to Mozilla 0.9.2 (linux) in a few
> > minutes !
> >
> > Bye and good luck !
> >
> > Jose
> >
Here is something you might try. Make a directory in your home directory
called nsmail copy the mail from Windows to nsmail. I personally prefer
Netscape, but I also have Mozilla. Mozilla always checks my nsmail
directory and imports whatever is in it. I don't know where that Mozilla
stores the mail, but if you do, it might work if you copy the Windows
mail directory there.

jamess
-- 
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, 
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."

-Anonymous

So far I managed to only import the address book successfully but not with the 
mails. I have tried to import first all the mails into Mozilla which was 
installed in Windows, then I tried to set the path of the Local Folder of the 
Mozilla in Linux to the directory in Windows which is mounted where all the 
mails were imported from Outlook Espress before. The import process seemed to 
be alright because I could then see all the  folders but when I tried to open 
each folders, nothing happened. I couldn't  see all my mails. Could you tell me 
how did you do it succesfully? 

Is that true that when you try to use the import utility for importing  the 
mails in Linux you can't see any option, can you? Whereas for address book 
importing process, there is at least one option i.e. 'Text'.
If there is no option for mail importing, then the only way to do this is by 
setting the path of the Local Folder to the one in Windows partition, but why 
did I fail to do this?

Alimin

Jose Sanchez wrote:

> I did the next:
> [Windows]
> - Install Mozilla (win32)
> - Import mail (or anything else) from Mozilla (it found itself any
> mailer installed on Windows)
> 
> then ...
> 
> [Linux]
> - Mount Windows partition (where you save "new" Mozilla mailbox)
> - Set the path to mailbox in Mozilla (linux)
> 
> Windows and Linux, both will use the same mailbox.
> 
> I did it from Outlook 2000 (win32) to Mozilla 0.9.2 (linux) in a few
> minutes !
> 
> Bye and good luck !
> 
> Jose
> 

Thanks Jamess.
Finally got it working. I see, the problem is because linking the Local Folder 
path to the mails in Windows partition is alright but the problem lies with the 
permission and owner of the files. So I moved all the mails in the Mozilla 
Windows to 'nsmail' directory in Linux and then changed all the permission and 
owner of the files to myself and linking the Local Folder path in Mozilla Linux 
to 'nsmail' directory and it is done!

Thanks again for any help provided. Hopefully anybody else having the same 
problem could find this beneficial solving the problem.

Alimin

jamess@fda.net wrote:


>> > Jose
>> >
> Here is something you might try. Make a directory in your home directory
> called nsmail copy the mail from Windows to nsmail. I personally prefer
> Netscape, but I also have Mozilla. Mozilla always checks my nsmail
> directory and imports whatever is in it. I don't know where that Mozilla
> stores the mail, but if you do, it might work if you copy the Windows
> mail directory there.
> 
> jamess