[vox-tech] Email

[Richard Harke]

Rod's link included the suggestion to make the conversion on the old
machine which
I'm going to try as kmail is still working there.

On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Richard Harke (paleopenguin at gmail.com):
>
> > I did install Thunderbird (icedove) but I'm stuck ay impoting my
> > existing emails. I created a folder to match one from kmailm planning
> > to import one folder at a time.
>
> I believe you mistyped 'Ah, thank you for calling attention to my
> omitting any coherent details of what format my "old email" is currently
> in.  It's trapped inside whatever datastore KMail [you supply version]
> uses.'
>
> (Hint, hint.)
>
>
> One issue is that KMail used a number of storage formats over time,
> sometimes offering a couple as options.  Here is an article that
> describes a user of KMail 2.x (from KDE 4.7.2) getting out of KMail to
> Thunderbird with his mail intact:
>
> http://www.ulduzsoft.com/2012/01/from-kmail-to-thunderbird/
>
> (Author 'George' doesn't like the default mbox format used by
> Thunderbird, so configures Thunderbird to use Maildir instead.)
>
> One obvious workaround irrespective of KMail's storage format -- usable
> _if_ KMail is working well enough to sync to remote mail servers --
> would be to sync KMail's local folders to a remote IMAP server, and then
> IMAP-sync that same mail downwards (the other direction) into
> Thunderbird.
>
> For extra credit and vastly greater speed, do this via an IMAP daemon
> (such as Dovecot) and MTA (such as Exim/Postfix) that you run locally on
> you Linux host.  But that might be more setup than you care to take on.
>
> Tip:  On general grounds, you'll want this extension for Thunderbird:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
> It makes bulk-importing of mbox-formatted mail files more human-friendly
> than without the extension.  The extension does not, however, natively
> understand any other file formats (e.g., Maildir).
>
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