njw@doc.imperial.ac.uk (Nick Williams) (02/06/91)
I know that this has been gone over before, but I can't find where: What is the technique for converting old MH directories into Messages format? Is this documented anywhere in the messages documents? If not, could it have a help entry, or something, as I'm sure that for many sites who start to use andrew, or users that want to switch, the process is too complicated for the ordinary user. Also, a method of going back the other way would be nice. Quite a few users say "I'll try messages for a while, but if I don't like it, then could I convert back to using MH?" Nick Williams. "It's all gone... *Horribly* wrong." njw@doc.ic.ac.uk ... Dept of Computing, Imperial College, London SW7 2B7. UK njw@athena.mit.edu ... Project Athena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA 02139. USA Disclaimer: Any opinions or views you may find hiding in this message are mine: noone else wants them.
pst@jessica.Stanford.EDU (Paul Traina) (02/07/91)
Here's a simple way to convert from MH to andrewmail: Create all the folders you care about using CUI or Messages. Then, just copy the individual files from your MH mail directories into the proper subdirectories under .MESSAGES. Finally, run the CUI "scavenge" or "rebuild" command to rebuild the proper indices (sorry I don't rmember which you need to do when starting from scratch). Paul