[kwlug-disc] Importing mbox file into Thunderbird?

CrankyOldBugger crankyoldbugger at gmail.com
Sun Feb 14 10:57:44 EST 2021


I'm using that importexportng add-on to export my emails in .eml format.
It works well for that.


On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 at 02:52, William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> Thanks.  Yes, it works... sort of.  It imports only one directory, not the
> subdirectories.  Still better than nothing.
>
> Side Note:   Thunderbird is very finicky about "From " lines.  Make sure
> you quote every line that begins with "From ".  I mean every occurrence,
> even if it's not preceded by blank line.  Mutt is more tolerant.
>
> --William
> On 2/13/21 11:20 PM, Colin Mackay wrote:
>
> I found this article:
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1285736
>
> Apparently you need to install
> https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:07 PM Mingde (Matthew) Zeng <
> matthewzmd at posteo.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> William Park via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> writes:
>>
>> > Side Note:  I'm beginning to like Thunderbird.  It replaces fetchmail,
>> procmail, mutt, vim, sendmail for mailing purpose.  But, I miss vim, though.
>>
>> Side Note: You might want to check out Emacs with evil-mode [1] and mu4e
>> [2]
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil
>> [2] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
>>
>> >
>> > --William
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
>>
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