Re: importing messages from Thunderbird into GNUMail

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi Svetlana,

On 4/9/19 2:27 AM, Svetlana Tkachenko wrote:

After experiencing bugs in GNUMail with moving and storing messages, I was using Thunderbird for a while. However now this bug is marked as resolved (thanks Riccardo!!), and I would like to come back to GNUMail. How do I import my messages from

Try if the solution is fine for you :)

Thunderbird? Its mail storage is something like this

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird

Apparently inside the format is mbox, however "adapted". I wonder if it can be read by GNUMail, which can use mbox or maildir.

You might try. I never attempted it. Maybe others can help?

Riccardo