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Hello,

I'm new to Linux and am trying to set up a Linux machine to act as a server, especially a mail server, for my small (2 user) home network. Of the client PCs one will be running Linux and one will be running Windows ME.

So far I've got Samba running a treat but I'm now trying to migrate my email system from the Windows machine to my Linux server. The idea is that the Linux server will collect all the emails from my ISP and the local clients will read the email from my server "as required".

An added complication is that I currently use the Windows ME machine for email and I would like to keep the 5 years worth of existing emails I have.

So onto my problems..

Firstly I can export emails from my Windows email system (Turpike) in Berkeley Mailbox format and I thought that I could then simply import these into KWrite. However the KDE KAB import tool doesn't give me the option of importing mail held in this format.

Secondly I must confess I'm not even sure that this is how to achieve my aims ? Should I be trying to import the emails into KMail ? or should I be doing things differently ?

So really I'm not at all sure how to acheive what I want and would be grateful for any suggestions as, having done much surfing, I seem to be getting more confused by the page...

All top tips, hints etc. gratefully received.

Firstly thanks for the reply.

But I must say that I'm not sure if "Mbox" is the same as "Berkeley Mailbox Format" as all I know is that my current windows client will export in the latter with each message being output to a seperate file (not sure how attachements are handled - if at all)

As for mail servers my ISP requires me to collect via POP3 and post via SMTP and, as I've already set up my Windows client to do this, I'm not expecting this part to be particularly diffcult

As I'm unfamiliar with Linux and mail servers in general the hard bit is working out what should actually be happening at the Linux end !

So I think the first thing to do is therefore to try exporting a few test emails, copy them to my ~/Mail folder and see if KMail picks them up.

Still at least I'm learning stuff as I go along

Thanks again for the reply.