Move some Claws mailboxes to Thunderbird?

[Victoria S.]

I've searched Google and tried various things suggested, with no success.

I use Claws Mail (version 3.8.0) at home, but I am restricted to Thunderbird at work - although I do have access to Evolution, if needed (this issue; not used).

I have also access to Thunderbird at home (I use it as a RSS feed client/reader) and Evolution (again, not used).

Unfortunately, I am not able to use Claws, at work.

My home operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and 64-bit); at work it's CentOS 6.

My Claws mail is stored under Mailbox (MH); on my home computer at ~/Mail/.

I have a Claws mail folder/directory, with 321 subfolders and thousands of messages, that I would like to be able to import into Thunderbird

How can I go about accomplishing this task?

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[Andrej Kacian]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:32:01 -0800

Post by Victoria S.
How can I go about accomplishing this task?

Hello Victoria,

if you can't find any way for Thunderbird to read MH mailboxes (using some
extension or whatnot), you might have to do it manually, folder by folder. See
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Migration regarding their
suggestions about MH import.

By the way, you should probably be asking this on Thunderbird support
forums or mailing lists, not here. :)

Good luck!

Regards,

[Michael Rasmussen]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:32:01 -0800

Post by Victoria S.
How can I go about accomplishing this task?

Claws can export a mailbox to mbox format.
Installing this plugin in thunderbird will add import of mbox format to
thunderbird:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

PS. I have not tried it;-)
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[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 18 Jan 2014 14:32:01 -0800

Post by Victoria S.
I've searched Google and tried various things suggested, with no success.
I use Claws Mail (version 3.8.0) at home, but I am restricted to
Thunderbird at work - although I do have access to Evolution, if
needed (this issue; not used).
I have also access to Thunderbird at home (I use it as a RSS feed
client/reader) and Evolution (again, not used).
Unfortunately, I am not able to use Claws, at work.
My home operating system is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (and 64-bit); at work it's CentOS 6.
My Claws mail is stored under Mailbox (MH); on my home computer at ~/Mail/.
I have a Claws mail folder/directory, with 321 subfolders and
thousands of messages, that I would like to be able to import into
Thunderbird
How can I go about accomplishing this task?

You could use an IMAP account as an intermediary. Copy the folders TO
the IMAP account (perhaps gmail, perhaps a Dovecot server you set up at
your home), and then at home pull them off and put them on Claws.

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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[Victoria S.]

["solved"] Jan 20, 2014

Unfortunately in Claws it appears that you can only export one folder at a time:

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IN CLAWS MAIL:

* Select a mail folder (no subfolders)

* File menu >> Export to mbox file...

* etc. [follow prompts]

* Notes:

** mbox names cannot have semicolons (;), or will give errors when importing mbox into Thunderbird (i.e. Thunderbird will try to import the bit after the semicolon as a folder?)

** mbox names can contain ( ) [ ] ... ,

** try to avoid mbox names that are *too* long (e.g. >~67-68 characters; ~65 characters appears to be fine)

** this may be system-specific; see: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2440379

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IN THUNDERBIRD:

* Install the ImportExportTools-2.8.0.4.xpi plugin [https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html]

* Click the folder (e.g. in Thunderbird's Local Folders) where you want to import the mbox file, exported from Claws

* Right-click this folder (or select at the bottom of the Thunderbird Tools menu) >> ImportExportTool >> Import mbox file >> Import directly from one or more mbox files

* etc. [follow prompts]

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Per

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=617665

and

https://nic-nac-project.org/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html << plugin author/source

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[Paul]

Excellent information on the Claws Mail list. :-§

[Steve Litt]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 07:04:40 -0800

Post by Victoria S.
["solved"] Jan 20, 2014
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* Select a mail folder (no subfolders)

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You can copy whole trees, assuming you have access to an IMAP server.

* Make sure you have an account on the IMAP server. Gmail comes to
mind, although you just know Google will roll over and play dead if
the feds ever subpoena them.

* On both Claws and Tbird, make accounts for your IMAP account.

* On Claws, copy a tree to your IMAP account.

* On Tbird, copy the tree into Tbird's local mailbox scheme

Be careful: This stuff can take a long, long, LONG time, *especially*
with the pig slow, inefficient Tbird. Personally, I'd recommend each
copy involve no more than 10K messages, because otherwise you'll always
wonder whether it's hung, or whether it's just taking hours.

The process can be made *much* faster if you have a Dovecot IMAP server
on the same physical machine as your Tbird and Claws. Of course, that
point, you might as well leave your messages on your local IMAP, and
use Claws and Tbird just to look at them.

When you're done with the process, if you use an IMAP server outside
your sphere of control, like gmail, be sure to delete everything, so if
the feds come in with a subpoena, ...

SteveT

Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance