[LBo] How to import thunderbird info into evolution?

[Jackson Robertson]

This sounds intriguing, but considering that don't have a lot of time
right now (taking summer classes) I my just try Anita's suggestion and
use this IMAP server stuff for the future.

What I would really love to see would be for mail clients to have a
standard inbox setup so that once you set one up the others could just
look there for the info and be on their way as opposed to all this
non-interoperability non-sense that is going on. I would like to see the
same sort of standardization for RSS readers and web browsers as well. I
don't know, maybe this is just a pipe dream.

Thanks for all the responses and for the great help.

Jackson Robertson


Stefan Waidele wrote:
> Exactly for this reason (changing e-mail clients w/o losing messages), I
> have set up myself an IMAP server. You can do so on your own box (or for
> your LAN).
> 
> This IMAP-server stores the mails, and thunderbird and/or evolution
> and/or outlook can access them.
> 
> Another adventage: If you switch clients/boxes, read a message on one
> client and it will be marked read on all. Delete SPAM in thunderbird, it
> will be gone in evolution. Sort messages to folder in opera, they are
> sorted in mozilla.
> 
> You can also simpla install uw-imap and make sure it gets started on
> bootup if you want to see how it can be used. For further use, I would
> suggest something like this, even though it might be a little too much
> for what you want:
> http://howtoforge.com/virtual_users_and_domains_with_postfix_debian_etch
> 
> In order to get your mail into the new IMAP-Server, you will need to do
> something like this:
> http://howtoforge.com/debian_etch_fetchmail
> 
> The flexibility you will gain will be worth the hassle.
> 
> Neat stuff :)
> 
> Stefan
> 
> Jackson Robertson schrieb:
>> 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
> 
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