Subject: convert PINE mailboxes to ...

From: "Nada O'Neal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:46:02 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

 Someone asked me to convert their PINE mailboxes for them, to a new,
non-PINE-able email account. I no longer have access to their old PINE
account - it has been shut down. I just have the mail files. There is
about 100MB of mail, because he has 5000 messages and a bazillion freakin'
attachments.

 My first instinct was to just convert the UNIX linebreaks to DOS
linebreaks, and then open the messages in Eudora, which was fine, except
that he's the English-major type, and 75% of his messages have
attachments. Now all his messages with attachments say, "This is a MIME
message... need MIME tools... etc.".munpack works fine and all that, but
if I tell him he needs to use munpack, he'll have an epileptic fit. You
know what I mean? Does anyone know of a program/utility will essentially
munpack an entire mailbox at once?

 The other thing I tried to do is to load his mailboxes into my own PINE
account and "save" them into the INBOX, so that I could then POP the
messages down. My server can only convert in one direction, though...
spool to PINE, and not PINE to spool. However, if you can convert in one
direction, you must be able to convert in the other! Does anyone know of a
program/utility that can do this? Can be a UNIX utility. My sysadmin
hasn't gotten back to me.

ALTERNATELY, if someone could tell me how to use PC pine to move mail from
local PINE folders to an IMAP server, that would also solve all my
problems. I think.

 Thanks!

 - Nada O'Neal
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From: "Nada O'Neal" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:16:33 -0500 (EST)

> non-PINE-able email account. I no longer have access to their old PINE
 ...

I figured out how to use PC-PINE to move the messages up to his new server
via IMAP - it was amazingly easy and now I feel silly. I am interested,
though, if anyone has answers to my other questions. Thanks!