[PLUG] Transfering mozilla mail and newsgroup settings from linux to windows

[Ari Finander]

Hi all,

My monitor has gone in for repairs (does anyone have one they could loan me for about a week?) and I'm working from my laptop now. My linux box is still running, as I need to access files on it in the samba shares. What I want to do is pull my email files, email settings, and newsgroup settings from the .mozilla directory in my home directory on the linux box and use them on this WinXP Pro laptop. Importing the bookmarks was easy, as Mozilla lets you browse for a bookmarks.html file to import. However, importing mail and news files it searches for preexisting profiles on the local computer only, and only for programs other than mozilla. I really don't want to bugger everything up by just copying the files across over the ones that are already there (this didn't work with bookmarks.html, oddle enough, and it would always revert back to the original bookmarks.html file, even though it had been overwritten!). I'll be searching google some more, perhaps I've just used the wrong s
 earch terms, but any help you guys can offer would be appreciated!

TIA,

Ari
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