Re: [Evolution] Importing from Thunderbird on WinXP

[Michael Abbott <mabster internode on net>]

On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 19:09 +0100, guenther wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:43 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 January 2006 02:36, Michael Abbott wrote:
>
> > > I'm running Evolution on a standard install of Ubuntu Linux.  I want to
> > > be able to import all my Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail across from another
> > > WinXP partition.  What's the easiest / safest way to do this?
> >
> > Just copy the "Local Folders" directory from your TBird Profile and paste it 
> > directly into your /home/.evolution/mail/local/ folder. It's as easy as that.
>
> Basically, this should work. :-)

Thanks guys!

I had a whole bunch of sub-folders, etc. on the Thunderbird side, and
just copying them straight through to an Import.sbd folder didn't appear
to work (it could see all the folders but couldn't access them).  So I
went back to my XP machine and moved all my mail back into the Inbox and
then compacted it.  When I copied it across again on the Linux side it
just worked.

Giddy,
- Mab