** steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk [2014-02-25 10:29]:
On 24/02/14 13:18, Paul Tansom wrote:
I still look back and wish I'd had the spare cash to get another machine to try Linux on sooner. It was an interesting process downloading software off the tools disks to my VM account and then transferring them to my PC and then onto a floppy. I also wish I still had copies of the forum posts, they would be an interesting archive. I do still have archives on my local LUG after I stumbled across it in around '98, although I have yet to sort out getting them extracted from the backups of my Turnpike software (I was with Demon Internet back then). Anyhoo, enough reminiscing, I need to get back to OpenVPN, Wordpress and Linux backups (not directly linked projects).
AFAIK Turnpike used the standard email mbox format data files. This should mean that they're really easy to import into some other system. I certainly imported mine into Thunderbird without any trouble, though I can't remember exactly how - probably because it was as trivial as Tools/Import or Drag & Drop a <file-manager> folder into a Thunderbird Folder.
** end quote [steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk]
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 :(