Import old emails from Netscape 7.2
I have emails in various folders (because of a few Netscape crashes) created until last year by Netscape 7.2 which I found extremely easy to use and understood how to use. Unfortunately I have had a permanent crash and am unable to reinstall 7.2 but want to save some emails which contain old family photos as well as others containing program access codes. I thought I would be able to read them as msf files are involved. Any ideas not too geeky? Regards Derek
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see http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/i-want-old-version-of-thunderbird.html
download an older version from the FTP site.... say Version 3.1 and it should import your old netscape mail as part of the install. Afterwards you can update to a latter version, but the older versions have better support for Netscape import.
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see http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2011/07/i-want-old-version-of-thunderbird.html
download an older version from the FTP site.... say Version 3.1 and it should import your old netscape mail as part of the install. Afterwards you can update to a latter version, but the older versions have better support for Netscape import.
There are some more details in this support article, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Migrate_from_Mozilla_Suite_or_Netscape_to_Thunderbird
the older versions have better support for Netscape import — actually, support for importing Netscape 6.x/7.x and Mozilla Suite profiles has been removed entirely in Thunderbird 11.0 and later, thus an earlier version is needed to make the first migration step. Thunderbird 3.x seems to be a good starting point.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Thunderbird is another article you may be interested in if you just want to import the old folders of your Netscape installation into Thunderbird, but not anything else.