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Adam Carheden (carheden@holly.ColoState.EDU) wrote:

: DOH!  Now I have to boot Windows yet again to access my old e-mail trash
: folder.  Does anyone know a good way to keep my Netscape mail folders
: the same between Win95 and Linux?  My bookmark file is a symbolic link,
: which works fine, but when I tried it with the nsmail folder all the
: mailboxes were empty. Well, back to Windows, BRB...

So, you have your bookmarks on your Win95 partition and are mounting it
from Linux? 

The problem, I think, is the Win32 and Unix versions use different names
to store the mail files; I don't know about the format (so what I'm about
to suggest may or may not work), but if it's the same, it should work.

Win32 mail is stored in \Program
Files\Netscape\Users\<username>\Mail\<mailboxnames> You'll see for every
mail box (let's use Inbox), there's Inbox, which stores the actual mail,
and Inbox.snm, which is Netscape's 'summary' file of the Inbox, so it can
generate the listing of what's in your mailbox without actually reading
the mailbox again (nice if you have a big mailbox). In Unix, these files
are stored under ~/nsmail/Inbox (for the real mail) and
~/nsmail/.Inbox.summary, so my (not approved by Netscape in anyway, shape,
or form ;-) suggestion would be to link ~/nsmail/.Inbox.summary to
Inbox.snm on the other partition, as well as the other files (the actual
mailbox folders themselves).

If you do this, I'd make a backup of both directories...and let me know
if it works...I'd be curious to see if it does...

As for the MP3 woes, I just installed x11amp (freshmeat is your friend)
and all worked well. I haven't heard of the other MP3 software you
mentioned, so...I can't really help...sorry...Mike can be your hero this
time... ;-)

Later,
Paul
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