[masque]

my grandmother is making the switch from AOL to another email. I'm trying to save all of her old mail and import it into her new mail client (Thunderbird). AOL exports into a "pfc" format, which is proprietary to AOL, and cannot be read by anything I have found. Does anyone know of a program that will import PFC files, or will convert from .pfc to something more friendly? All that I've found so far are either expensive mail-in services or paid programs. I'd like to avoid spending if at all possible, and I cannot give the pfc files to someone else to convert.

thanks

 

[Kirby]

this might do the trick...I hope you're not afraid of the command line

http://www.download3000.com/download-count-home-7817.html

 

[masque]

well, that'll get the favorites out! I'm half done. Unfortunately, it doesn't grab emails.

 

[Kirby]

here's some other stuff:

http://members.aol.com/pfcviewer/

 

[masque]

curse my lack of java knowledge. running the java program gives me the following error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: pfcviewer

There is another error i get when I run the viewer program directly, instead of the way the FAQ on the viewer site tells me to.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: pfcviewer (wrong name: PfcViewer)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(Unknown Source)

Is the program bad or am I doing something wrong?

edit: I tried with an older version of java, same error