[thelist] Sort of OT: can't get to my old email messages

Chris Williams wrote:
> 
> OK, this might be considered baby stuff to most of you, but I've not had to
> deal with this yet, and it's cramping my style big time.  I can't access my
> email via Netscape Messenger from NS 4.5 Win; I get the always helpful "This
> program has performed an illegal operation and you're just screwed" prompt.
> Any hints on how I can get at all these carefully crafted folders that I had
> niftily set up with filters and save them to be accessed later (in a more
> robust email client?). I'm leaving this job for Austin tomorrow, and I'd
> really like to get at me archives if I could.  Thanks a lot in advance.

Find your Netscape User directory and copy that to zip, CD-R or your portable mass
media of choice.

The default, I believe is: c:\program files\netscape\users\<your netscape user name>

Clean out the 'cache' sub-directory before you copy this directory tree!! 

BTW - I think the email messages are all in ASCII text, so you should be able to
import into just about anything. I've been running Netscape mail since version 3.x
and haven't had any real problems. The worst one I've had was when something changed
the program association of .dat files to "something" and caused Netscape to barf when
ever I received mail from Outlook that had that evil mail.dat file attached. Netscape
would try to 'view' it (based upon the extension association) and would GPF on me.
Once I removed the dat file associated everything was guns and roses. ;-)

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