On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 01:54:59PM +0100, nev young wrote:
On 22/06/14 13:39, Chris Green wrote:
My wife is using Thunderbird on a new[ish] xubuntu 14.04 system. She has now got it fairly well configured and working the way she wants so the next step is to move her old 'local' E-Mail across.
No way is this remotely easy, I can sort of see how it might be done but there are so many gotchas that I fear it's going to be a mess.
Why can't modern E-Mail program simply use mbox (or maildir, I'm not too fussed) as they were designed rather than having to add all sorts of specially named directories and indexes?
Do you have ImportExportTools 2.8.0.4 installed as an addon for Thunderbird?
Not yet but I've read about it, I don't think it really does what we want because it will rename the 'imported' local directory as 'local<something>' apparently, that's just what we don't want. We want to integrate the imported stuff into the existing local directory (mostly as new sub-directories).