Re: Help required

[Michelle Knight <michelle msknight com>]

Hi Folks,

Thank you to all who have replied so far, both on and off list.

I've had a lot of food for thought while I've been sat here, importing
folders.

Initially, I had problems importing the thunderbird mail in to balsa.
It didn't seem like thunderbird could export mail in a format which
could be read by balsa. After reading posts on search engines on the
subject, potentially renaming files, etc. I ended up in claws.

Claws had an import option whereby I could just click on the
thunderbird mail box and in came the mails. 

Initially, my thoughts were to get the mails in to claws and I could
then get them in to balsa from there. However, I've had to import each
and every folder individually and, after spending all this time
importing in to claws, I'm not sure if I have the energy to take the
next step and port over to balsa.

I've also noted that although claws says that its boxes are mboxes, the
emails are stored in individual files; and when I saw that, I wondered
whether the port from claws to balsa would be as easy as I hoped.

So after spending a lot of time transferring, I'm now a bit dejected
and lacking energy, and am completing the transfer from thunderbird to
claws.

Where did Thunderbird go wrong? Well, the import from Kmail wasn't an
easy one either. Kmail 2 had already damaged the mail in the failed
upgrade (as seemed to happen to lots of people in late 2011/early 2012)
but this corruption happened despite moving mails to new folders in
thunderbird and deleting the old ones, but there is a very mild
possibility of corruption being ported over somehow in malformed mails.

My mind passed to the possibility that the amount of junk that comes
in, might have triggered an auto-compact which conflicted with a mail
being moved by rules. As my domains get a considerable amount of spam
(which are taken care of by the client, rather than the over-zealous
server) folders can get large, really fast. This would also roughly
coincide with my being on holiday, where two weeks of mails would have
built up before I manually sorted through them.

So, there are some possibilities for the corruption, but I'll probably
never know for sure. I do feel happier with mails stored individually,
at least it gives the possibility for the indexes to be re-built.

For now, I'm giving claws a chance. 

I'd like to thank everyone for their input in to my problem. I have
very much appreciated what people have had to say. If claws doesn't
have the features I need, I might end up in balsa yet!

Michelle.