Netscape email directory

[tekgek]

Hey, guys,

I have been on call for the last 5 hours, nuking someone's hard drive. I cloned it, and he used netscape for email. I need to know exactly where the folder that holds the config file for Netscape Mail. Any ideas? I have an exact clone of his hdd

[Major_A]

Sorry man I don't know. This is the sole reason I preach to people about using an online based email client. My brother in law used his ISP's mail and Outlook. Well his hard drive cratered and he lost a lot of information.

[stev]

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Mozilla E-mail Backup
Netscape E-mail Backup

Recent versions of Netscape Communicator are built on top of Mozilla (Thunderbird), so both e-mail clients share the same folder locations for e-mail database:

C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\
C:\Windows\Profiles\User Name\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\
C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\

Mozilla profile contains your bookmarks, mail/news files and account settings, stored passwords, address book, security certificates and preferences.

* Mail. Mail messages are stored in the Mail sub-directory. To back up your mail messages, save the files without extension, for example INBOX. To back up filters too, save the rules.dat file. The *.msf files are index files that will be automatically regenerated if removed. Save the entire Mail directory if you are uncertain what to save.
* News. News settings and messages are stored in the News sub-directory. Your subscribed groups are stored in the *.rc files. The complete news server groups list is stored in hostinfo.dat. *.msf files store message summaries. To back up news, save the *.rc, *.dat, and *.msf files.
* Address book. In your profile directory, save abook.mab (personal address book) and history.mab (collected addresses). If you have more than one address book, save all *.mab files.
* Bookmarks. Save the bookmarks.html file.
* Saved password data. Username and password data is stored in 12345678.s (the number part is random). Save the file.
* Junk filters. Save the training.dat file which stores information for the new smart filtering system.
* Cookies. Save the cookies.txt file.

Argentum™ Backup automatically detects and saves all of your Mozilla/Netscape/Thunderbird profiles with all of your bookmarks, mail/news files and account settings, stored passwords, address book, security certificates and preferences.