Mojo2000
09-20-2001, 05:41 AM
As a former university student in the early 90's, I had a Unix/AIX-based E-mail account where I accumulated a fair amount of messages. As my remote computer was a Commodore 128 without a graphic browser or E-mail client at the time, PINE was the online program I chose to use (over Emacs, which seemed rather weird and less intuitive to me).
I had the presence of mind to download those mail folders onto floppies and transferred them to CD-R, where I later tried to rescue the messages within Outlook Express. BZZZZT! Ah well. Although I could read the accumulated text in Notepad, the advantage of reading and sorting separate messages in a client was lost.
Now that I will have access to Mandrake Linux soon and some university server space, is there still hope for me? I may not have phrased my question correctly but perhaps somebody knows what I'm talking about. It could be that there was a solution in Windows, but I will surely accept suggestions in the Linux environment.
Many thanks in advance!
- green in Canada
I had the presence of mind to download those mail folders onto floppies and transferred them to CD-R, where I later tried to rescue the messages within Outlook Express. BZZZZT! Ah well. Although I could read the accumulated text in Notepad, the advantage of reading and sorting separate messages in a client was lost.
Now that I will have access to Mandrake Linux soon and some university server space, is there still hope for me? I may not have phrased my question correctly but perhaps somebody knows what I'm talking about. It could be that there was a solution in Windows, but I will surely accept suggestions in the Linux environment.
Many thanks in advance!
- green in Canada