[LBo] How to import thunderbird info into evolution?

[Anita Lewis]

On 07/10/2007 12:29 AM Jackson Robertson wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> I'm wanting to check out evolution but don't want to loose (or at least
> not have them all in one place) my e-mails from thunderbird. Is there a
> way in which I could get evolution to import all my e-mails and folders
> from thunderbird? I tried the import option in the file menu in
> evolution but it couldn't do this. Let me know if I've been ambiguous,
> thanks.
> 
> Jackson Robertson

Probably the easiest thing to do if you just want to check out evolution
is to set the preference for receiving messages so that a copy stays on
the server.  That way you will then pick it up again when you start
thunderbird.

If you actually want to import some mail, you can use the Import in
File, but I was only successful importing 1 mail file at a time.  That
would be impossible for me with all the subfolders I have, but you can
actually navigate to
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/default/somefunnyname/Mail/pop.whatever and
choose the Inbox or whatever one file you want.

Another way is to just copy the contents of that pop folder over to your
~/.evolution/mail/local directory.  I copied only Inbox by first putting
all the things labeled Inbox into a backup folder and moving that to my
Desktop in case I needed it.  Then I copied all the Inbox named stuff
from my thunderbird folder to that same local directory in .evolution.
When I opened evolution, the mail from thunderbird was all there.

For the copy I went to the mozilla-thunderbird directory and did:

cp -a Inbox* ~/.evolution/mail/local

You could use just * instead of Inbox* if you wanted everything copied over.

I would not recommend actually using the same directory for accessing
from both programs, because although they both use mbox, they use
different extensions on the files and evolution creates a few more than
thunderbird.

If you actually decide to migrate over, then you probably can export
your addresses withing thunderbird and import that file into evolution.
 I think it will recognize what it is and put it in the proper place.

Hope this helps.

Anita


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