Re: Help to import formats!

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:40:40AM +0200, Guido Amoruso wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm an Italian Linux newbie, but I'm fond of it, already!
> I've worked on it for two months and I can do all what I did on Windows - and 
> even more... - but I have some troubles with electonic mail I'm not able to 
> resolve!
> It's something general, so I don't know whether this is the right list, but I 
> like Gnome, Galeon....and Balsa seems very promising.
> I'd like to get all my old Outlook Express 5 mail on Linux, but it uses a 
> trap-format (.dbx ....), so I tried to do so: I imported my mail with Eudora 
> 5.1 - it 

there is something in freshmeat.net to convert outlook mailbox files to
mboxes.

> worked perfectly. Then I copied Eudora .mbx files (goodbye, attached...:-)) 
> and pasted on the places 
> where the Linux mailers could see them. I tried with Balsa, Kmail, Netscape 
> 4.76, Mozilla 0.9.2 and Evolution 0.11, with different results: some mails 
> are ok, 
> but many other have 
> strange behaviour; Balsa and Mozilla don't visualize them, while Kmail 
> Netscape and Evolution show the source - I think! It starts with <x-html>....
> I have noted that other new html mails are ok on all mailer....
> 
that's probably because gnome doesn't know about the x-html type, or because
the messages are borken and sent with wrong mime types. forward one to the
list and we'll see :)

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