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[Susan Baur]

Hi Richard,

Did you see this stackoverflow article?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4780441/how-to-import-mails-into-thunderbird-from-maildir-format

Good luck,
--Susan

> On Jul 13, 2015, at 5:42 PM, Richard Harke <paleopenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The kmail versions are 4.14.2 on my old machine and 4.14.1 on my new macine.
> I'm not entirely sure of what format mail files they use but I looked at a few of the files
> and those appeared to contain a single email message each. So I guess that is maildir
> format. I already used pimsettingsexporter from kmail but the resulting file did not
> seem to contain the actual emails, just configuration data. This was imported into
> kmail on the new machine, again using pimsettingsexporter. But since there were no
> message files I brought those over in an archive made with pax.
> The "kmail resource folders is broken" shows up as a bug, no. 310899 on bugs.kde.org
> for version 4.9.3 of kmail in November 2012.
> On my old machine I tried a python program called kmail2thunderbird.py but it seemed to
> think the files were already ok. Copied into the folder under thunderbird they show up
> by file name in the folders pane but thunderbird does not show them in the message pane
> and will not open them.. Probably because they are not mbox format.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> Quoting Richard Harke (paleopenguin at gmail.com):
> 
> > 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.
> 
> It's good that KMail is still working there, but you will need to
> consider what you're going to _do_ with KMail and its message store
> files.
> 
> The page Rod cited (a good page that, FYI, gives a lot of the same
> advice I've given you, including the recommendation of using
> Thunderbird's Import/Export Tools extension, and addresses quite a lot
> of other situations, besides) is necessarily a bit vague about KMail --
> because different versions of KMail have, as I said, used diverse
> message store file formats.  (The page says Kmail uses a compatible
> version of the mboxrd flavour of mbox, which is true, but it also has
> used other data store formats over time.) The version you were using
> might have used mbox file format, which would have been convenient, but
> also might have used something else.  Irrespective of the file format,
> KMail can doubtless _export_ to mbox format, which would also be useful.
> 
> You'd have gotten a more exact answer sooner if you'd revealed what file
> format your version of KMail used -- or at least the version number of
> KMail.  You've not provided either.
> 
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