Back in 1999-2001 I was using Netscape mail as my email client, I’ve recentally been clearing out some old hard drives that I used back then and I found my old netscape mail files. I’m intreasted in being able to read the emails I saved from back then.
So, my question is, does anyone know anyway to access the files from my OLD netscape mail directory? Each of my old folders has a .snm file and a file without an extention of the same name. How can I access them to see what it says with a current computer?
Oh, BTW, I also found an old thread from march 2001 that I seem to have right clicked and saved by mistake… Wow, the site looked so diffrent back then
Ok, I posted too soon. I just found my old Eudora files from 2002… So How do I access those also?
You could go to this site and download an old version of Netscape with an email client and load up those emails, I assume. I’ve never used Netscape mail so I am not sure if it’ll work, but I have used that guy’s NS archive versions and they are fine.
As for Eudora…I’ve been carting around my old email from Eudora since like 1998. I don’t think the format has changed. If you don’t have Eudora now, get a free version from their site. Your existing email should be in a file called Mailbox.mbx (maybe In.mbx or MyMail.mbx…whatever the mailbox was named). There should be an accompanying file samename.toc (same name as the mbx file just named .toc). Install Eudora, close it, and paste these two files into your Eudora directory (C:\program files\qualcomm\eudora, perhaps). Re-open Eudora and your mailbox should appear.
If you are already running Eudora, close it and paste in those 2 files, then re-open.
Or…just open the MBX file in Notepad. It’ll be a really long text file with all of your emails in it.
The Eudora mailbox (.mbx) files are plain ASCII text files. Notepad or any other text editor will be able to read them. All the emails will be there, one after the other, separated only by the header info.
Note that if you set up other mailboxes to separate or save some emails, those will be separate files. Look for everything with a .mbx name.
What platform? On the Mac, I just moved my old Netscape email files (“Inbox” and “Outbox”, IIRC) from the Netscape folder to the Eudora folder and when I launched Eudora it saw them immediately. Netscape therefore uses industry-standard email format (or did; it’s possible that they changed at some point). I would imagine you could do the same thing with Thunderbird that I did with Eudora.
What email program are you using now?
(I’ve got all my emails from 1991 to present, in and out, with the exception of a blank spot from when I was using AOL 2.x and one fine day they stopped storing our email online with very little advance warning).
Thanks for y’alls help. I didn’t realize that eudora was in text. I am able to read them easy. I guess I’ll have to download a version of netscape and see if it can read the files. Going to be a bit before I have the time to really fool around with that though.
Right now I’m using Gmail, so I guess that means I’m using Firefox 