"Dave" <sorry-no-email@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:46fe77ca@212.67.96.135...
>I was using the mail tool in Mozilla 1.7 on my Sun for reading email and
>newsgroups. Hence I have loads of messages and contacts.
>
> Since Solaris 10 update 4 has Thunderbird, and that seems to be developed
> more, I decided to change to that. But I dont seem to be able to import my
> old messages and contacts. It offered the chance to do it from Netscape
> 4.7 (or something like that), but nothing from Mozilla 1.7.
>
> Any suggestions?

I store all my email on IMAP based server. So no mater if I am using
SquirrelMail for nuts, or whatever it works. Even if you use an ISP with
POP3, download it and move the mail to the IMAP server.

If your using Solaris 10, numerous IMAP based servers abound.