Lanny Marcus wrote:
Background is that I have been using Evolution for my MUA for a number
of years. Migrated to Evolution from Mozilla Mail. I only use Evolution
for email and contacts. Getting bored with the issues (frequently not
being able to exit and needing to kill it; Bug Buddy popping up in
GNOME, etc) that Mark (MHR) and I and I'm sure others have experienced.
About 24 hours ago, I installed Thunderbird (on CentOS 5.2 32 bit) and
am testing it with this mailing list. So far, Thunderbird doesn't seem
to have any issues, based on this very quick trial.
The Thunderbird documentation says that it uses mbox files, but if so,
where_are_they? Here's what it says:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq#import
Thunderbird's mail files are in the standard plain text "mbox" format,
which almost all mail programs can use or import. Many proprietary
mail programs have a function to import from Eudora, which also uses
the "mbox" format; this function should read your Mozilla mail files
properly.
Your mail files are inside your profile (see the Profile Folder), in
the Mail and (if you use IMAP) ImapMail folders. Each mail folder
(Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files — one with no extension
(e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in "mbox" format), and
one with an .msf extension (e.g. INBOX.msf), which is the index (Mail
Summary File) to the mail file. Tell the other program to import mail
from the file with no extension.
However, in the imap.gmail.com folder
INBOX.msf file properties,
Type is shown as C source code
and MIME type is shown as text/x-csrc
and I cannot find the mbox files....
In Evolution:
Inbox has type: Mailbox file
and is shown as
MIME type: application/mbox
If someone on the list can point me to where the mbox files for
Thunderbird on Linux are located, that will be much appreciated. I do
not want to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird, unless my email will
continue to be in the mbox format, in case I eventually decide to
migrate from Thunderbird, to another MUA. TIA!
look under $HOME/.mozilla* (if you see a funny dirname, that name is a
profile id. chdir to ...).
The simplest way to migrate is to setup a local IMAP server, create an
account on both evolution and TB. then copy your old mail to the imap
server from one mailer, and get it from imap to the second mailer. may
take time if you have a large mailbox, but this way you don't have to
convert files (or even find them).
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