<div dir="ltr">Rod's link included the suggestion to make the conversion on the old machine which<div>I'm going to try as kmail is still working there.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:35 AM, Rick Moen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com" target="_blank">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Quoting Richard Harke (<a href="mailto:paleopenguin@gmail.com">paleopenguin@gmail.com</a>):<br>
<br>
> I did install Thunderbird (icedove) but I'm stuck ay impoting my<br>
> existing emails. I created a folder to match one from kmailm planning<br>
> to import one folder at a time.<br>
<br>
</span>I believe you mistyped 'Ah, thank you for calling attention to my<br>
omitting any coherent details of what format my "old email" is currently<br>
in. It's trapped inside whatever datastore KMail [you supply version]<br>
uses.'<br>
<br>
(Hint, hint.)<br>
<br>
<br>
One issue is that KMail used a number of storage formats over time,<br>
sometimes offering a couple as options. Here is an article that<br>
describes a user of KMail 2.x (from KDE 4.7.2) getting out of KMail to<br>
Thunderbird with his mail intact:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.ulduzsoft.com/2012/01/from-kmail-to-thunderbird/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.ulduzsoft.com/2012/01/from-kmail-to-thunderbird/</a><br>
<br>
(Author 'George' doesn't like the default mbox format used by<br>
Thunderbird, so configures Thunderbird to use Maildir instead.)<br>
<br>
One obvious workaround irrespective of KMail's storage format -- usable<br>
_if_ KMail is working well enough to sync to remote mail servers --<br>
would be to sync KMail's local folders to a remote IMAP server, and then<br>
IMAP-sync that same mail downwards (the other direction) into<br>
Thunderbird.<br>
<br>
For extra credit and vastly greater speed, do this via an IMAP daemon<br>
(such as Dovecot) and MTA (such as Exim/Postfix) that you run locally on<br>
you Linux host. But that might be more setup than you care to take on.<br>
<br>
Tip: On general grounds, you'll want this extension for Thunderbird:<br>
<a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/</a><br>
It makes bulk-importing of mbox-formatted mail files more human-friendly<br>
than without the extension. The extension does not, however, natively<br>
understand any other file formats (e.g., Maildir).<br>
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