Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +0000, Bill and Carol Yager wrote:
> My Evo version is:  3.30.1        and I am set up for POP3 using
> ATT.com serrver
>
> I have many, many saved emails organized in hundreds of sub-folder
> hierarchies in Thunderbird 60.4.0.   I believe the Thunderbird formt
> is Mbox while the Evo system is using Maildir.
>
> For two weeks I have been trying Evolution and really like the UI,
> but I have been unsuccessful in migrating the Thunderbird emails to
> Evolution.  There are far too many to use the GUI within Evo which
> only appears to move one file at a time.  Also, I have searched these
> mailing list archives for solutions and have tried them. No luck.
>
> I have tried two methods:
>
> 1. Copied the Saved_Mail.sbd folder (my top-level saved mail folder)
> from Thunderbird
>
>     Home\thunderbird\xxxxxx.default\Mail\Local Folders\Saved_Mail.sbd
>
>    into the Evolution "local" folder resulting in
>
>     Home\.local\share\evolution\mail\local\Saved Mail.sbc
>
> 2. Created a folder "Saved_Mail" using the Evolution GUI and then
> copied the contents of the Thunderbird "Saved Mail.sbd" over to the
> Evolution "Saved_Mail" folder. In addition to the copied files, I see
> the "cur", "new" and "tmp" files in the Evo "Saved_Mail" folder,
> indicating the Maildir structure.

How did you come up with these two methods?

Have you tried following
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/import-apps-mozilla.html
? That could be outdated though so I'd be interested in updating it...

> Some people have mentioned that the file to copy over is the
> file within the Thunderbird "Saved Mail.sbd" folder that doesn't have
> any extension; "Saved Mail.  " in my case.  But, this file is empty
> (size = 0)??
>
> What am I doing wrong?  Other people have mentioned that they have
> successfully moved a folder hierarchy over to Evolution.  Is it
> because Evo is now using a different email method than Thunderbird
> (maildir vs mbox)?  If so, how do I compensate for this?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Really want to move from TB to
> Evo.

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