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   I have done this in the past and it does get messy! Not to be advised   
   indeed, but is there an easy way of exporting just one's meta-data,   
   mostly for email and news, say from windows to re-import under linux   
   (without having to retype the server addresses and ideally, credentials)   
      
      
   Don Vito Martinelli wrote on 2025-07-13 19:23:   
   > Rather amusingly, I discovered a document from 18 years ago detailing   
   > how to do this:   
   > https://sillydog.org/netscape/kb/linuxwindows.html   
   >   
   > Nowadays Frank (FRG) has stated repeatedly here that this is a very   
   > dangerous thing to do, and that various fields in the profile are   
   > incompatible between the two operating systems.   
   > I don't know about abook.mab, but bookmarks.html ceased to be relevant   
   > many years ago.   
   >   
   > SillyDog.org dates back over 20 years and most of the links in the   
   > various pages there are broken, this even includes many of the internal   
   > ones.   
      
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