Re: OT: Migration from Evolution to Thunderbird (Thunderbird mbox files)

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mouss wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
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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
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(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.
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and I cannot find the mbox files....
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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 data for Firefox is located in .mozilla The mbox files for Thunderbird are supposed to be in .thunderbird but I cannot find them there.

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).

My email is on gmail.com IMAP and yes, I could start over with Thunderbird by downloading everything into Thunderbird from the IMAP server.

The problem is that if I ever want to migrate from Thunderbird, I want to be sure that I know where the mbox files are located and at this time, I cannot find the mbox files.

The documentation on the Thunderbird support site is not showing what I am seeing on my Desktop box. Possibly I should post this on a Thunderbird mailing list, because their documentation shows something that is not correct?
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