Re: Problem incorporating old mail from Thunderbird

[Julien Cubizolles]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> Give it a prefix (C-u G f) and answer m (mbo
> ,----[ (info "(gnus)Foreign Groups") ]
> | `G f'
> |      Make a group based on some file or other
> |      (`gnus-group-make-doc-group').  If you give a prefix to this
> |      command, you will be prompted for a file name and a file type.
> |      Currently supported types are `mbox', `babyl', `digest', `news',
> |      `rnews', `mmdf', `forward', `rfc934', `rfc822-forward',
> |      `mime-parts', `standard-digest', `slack-digest', `clari-briefs',
> |      `nsmail', `outlook', `oe-dbx', and `mailman'.  If you run this
> |      command without a prefix, Gnus will guess at the file type.  *Note
> |      Document Groups::.
> `----

I was running into the same problem while importing mail from evolution
: the import stopped at the first mail with attachments it seems. 
C-u G f and specifying mbox correctly imported all mails. Thanks Reiner.