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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: VMS mail --> Emacs RMAIL
- Date: 7 Nov 1992 02:53:38 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- Message-ID: <1dfb3iINNi5h@gap.caltech.edu>
- References: <GRODAN.92Nov2174516@cyklop.nada.kth.se>
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- In article <GRODAN.92Nov2174516@cyklop.nada.kth.se>, grodan@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Mats G Lfdahl) writes:
- =
- =I am moving from VMS to unix and I've started reading email with
- =Emacs's rmail. Now, I have a lot of old messages in various folders in
- =the VSM account. Is there a way to transfer them to the unix machine,
- =preserving the original Date:, Subject:, and From: fields?
- =
- =It would be even better if the procedure could also imitate the
- =folders, with rmail labels.
-
- Well, your first step should probably be to EXTRACT/ALL/MAIL each of your
- folders to a different sequential file. I don't know anything about the format
- in which rmail stores mail files, so I can't help you beyond that.
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
-
- Disclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My
- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
- unless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my
- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
-