Hi. I'm new to this forum and a bit sketchy on the technical details.
I had a Novell server and Groupwise running in a company I had about 6
or 7 years ago. The server still works and I want to find some old
emails from 2000. So I attached one of the original workstations.
Groupwise is still installed and still works. My Novell account is
still on the server and I remember the password and the logon works
fine. However I think that at sometime in between 2000 and now the
workstation has been used just with a Windows network and Outlook, and
so when I started up Groupwise it asked me to set up an email account.
It no longer "looks at" my old Groupwise emails. I think they are
there. There are a bunch of userxx.db files and .000 etc files in the
MAIL folder in the server. I am wondering if anyone can tell me (in
simple terms) how I can "point" Groupwise at these emails again. I
don't necessarily want to operate Groupwise as my email account
anymore. I just want to retrieve a few old emails. Is anyone able to
help me with this?

Thanks

Greg


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GregBegaud wrote:
> Hi. I'm new to this forum and a bit sketchy on the technical details.
> I had a Novell server and Groupwise running in a company I had about 6
> or 7 years ago. The server still works and I want to find some old
> emails from 2000. So I attached one of the original workstations.
> Groupwise is still installed and still works. My Novell account is
> still on the server and I remember the password and the logon works
> fine. However I think that at sometime in between 2000 and now the
> workstation has been used just with a Windows network and Outlook, and
> so when I started up Groupwise it asked me to set up an email account.
> It no longer "looks at" my old Groupwise emails. I think they are
> there. There are a bunch of userxx.db files and .000 etc files in the
> MAIL folder in the server. I am wondering if anyone can tell me (in
> simple terms) how I can "point" Groupwise at these emails again. I
> don't necessarily want to operate Groupwise as my email account
> anymore. I just want to retrieve a few old emails. Is anyone able to
> help me with this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Greg
>
>
/ph-path to po

for client

Michael Bell;1600592 Wrote:
> GregBegaud wrote:
> > Hi. I'm new to this forum and a bit sketchy on the technical
> details.
> > I had a Novell server and Groupwise running in a company I had about
> 6
> > or 7 years ago. The server still works and I want to find some old
> > emails from 2000. So I attached one of the original workstations.
> > Groupwise is still installed and still works. My Novell account is
> > still on the server and I remember the password and the logon works
> > fine. However I think that at sometime in between 2000 and now the
> > workstation has been used just with a Windows network and Outlook,
> and
> > so when I started up Groupwise it asked me to set up an email
> account.
> > It no longer "looks at" my old Groupwise emails. I think they are
> > there. There are a bunch of userxx.db files and .000 etc files in
> the
> > MAIL folder in the server. I am wondering if anyone can tell me (in
> > simple terms) how I can "point" Groupwise at these emails again. I
> > don't necessarily want to operate Groupwise as my email account
> > anymore. I just want to retrieve a few old emails. Is anyone able
> to
> > help me with this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> /ph-path to po
>
> for client

Thanks Michael, but as I'm not a computer expert I don't really get
what you mean. I can guess I need to somehow give Groupwise the
"address" (IP? path? etc) of the postbox where the emails are, but
that's the bit I don't know how to do.

R

Greg


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Try running grpwise.exe /ph-<pathtodirectory>.

The directory name you are looking for is the one that *contains*
directories named ofuser, ofmsg, and offiles among others

Cheers Dave


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DParkes;1600600 Wrote:
> Try running grpwise.exe /ph-<pathtodirectory>.
>
> The directory name you are looking for is the one that *contains*
> directories named ofuser, ofmsg, and offiles among others
>
> Cheers Dave
>
>
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Thanks Dave - I'll give it a try.

Greg


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