On 26/02/14 13:14, Paul Tansom wrote:
Yes I think it did, and I seem to remember importing my main mail into whichever client / server setup I was using at the time I migrated (although that may have been via an IMAP drag and drop as I've been using that setup since the mid 90s). Unfortunatly I used a feature within it that could turn a particular tag, sender or list (Turnpike was doing this sort of thing way before Google!) into a newsgroup (which it also handled), and I think the format used for that was different. I haven't really delved into it properly. I did ask about it on a newsgroup some time ago and got a reply - which has probably expired from the newsgroup cache by now! It's all down to time an priorities, and much like playing with my retro kit this never quite makes it to the top :(
I'd hope that the information would all still be available via Google Groups!
For one day, when you get round to it....
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/demon.ip.support.turnpike
I think that newsgroup files and email files could easily have been in a different format, but, I would expect if it were showing emails like a newsgroup, it was still probably storing them as emails in mbox format, BICBW. There's always the "Suck it and See" approach to find out! :-)
Steve