Re: [Evolution] How do I migrate to Evolution from Thunderbird?

[Jai <i922sparkcir gmail com>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 10:58 -0500, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:26:28 -0800
> Jai <i922sparkcir gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, this is my first time using this mailing list.
> >
> > I am an Ubuntu 7.04 (herd 5) user and I want to completely switch to 
> > evolution, but I have thousands of emails archived within Thunderbird 
> > and over three-hundreds cotacts. I need to be able to search within
> > old email, and use the same contacts.
> >
> > Thank you guys for your help.
> > -Jai
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> I'm not sure about the contacts, but you should be able to transfer
> your email using your favorite file manager, since Tbird and Evo use
> the mbox email format. With Evolution closed, copy the Tbird file
> containing the email itself (one for each filter
> folder you've set up?) into /home/~./evolution/mail/local . Then start
> Evolution. Evolution will crunch for a bit, then you'll see the file as
> an email folder in Evolution's window. Assuming you have individual
> filter folders in Tbird, start with small ones as a test. Then make
> sure the number of emails you see in Evo after the transfer is that same
> as the number you had in Tbird. I've found that when transferring email
> files containing a couple of thousand emails, some of them wind up in
> Evolution's Trash folder. If that happens to you, just hightlight those
> and drag them to the correct folder. 
>
> Others may have a more elegant solution, but this has worked for me...
>
> With best regards,
>
> Pete

This worked perfectly, Thank you.