Subject: Pine---> Netscape transition

From: Pat Smith <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:22:30 -0400

Hi --

I have some customers who are currently reading mail using Pine. We 
need to move them to a Netscape Messaging server environment. Does
anyone have experience moving the directories where users have filed
their mail when using Pine to the Netscape environment without disturbing
the directory structure. i.e., keep it transparent to the users?

Pine is in a SunOS environment and NS Messaging server is Solaris.

thanks in advance for help or pointers to help.  

- pat smith

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From: Paul Kraus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:38:16 -0400

> the directory structure. i.e., keep it transparent to the users?

I move back and forth between OINE and NETSCAPE MESSENGER transparently
all the time (I prefer Pine but Netscape gives me threading and hot
links). Both save their mail "folders" as plain text files. As long as
you set the Netscape local (or server if you are using IMAP) path to the
same location as the PINE folders you should be OK.

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From: "Pat Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1998 15:48:38 -0400

This is helpful but I have additional questions. (note that I am not a sys
admin ... so may not phrase things correctly) Anyway, we are moving
all the users from one machine where they read mail in the Pine environment, to
another machine where Messaging svr is running. I suppose each (pine and mess
svr) have their own directory place to plop down the user directories. I
figured if one could just copy from one machine to the other and put them in
the correct place all would be well. Does this make sense? In the new
environment, the users will be a mix of POP3 with a variety of clients and
IMAP4 using Communicator.

Thanks for your response. - pat