Importing Mail in TB3

[rikona]

Hello Rashkae,

Monday, October 11, 2010, 6:03:45 PM, Rashkae wrote:

R> On 10-10-11 07:43 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
>> Ive had some difficulty with TB3 but Im getting there.
>> I have a few mail accounts that I check for the soccer leagues.
>> Its just a std pop account.
>> Ive already been using the account as its setup on TB3 but I have lots
>> of mail still from my TB2 setup.
>>
>> 1) I saw a import feature for mail - if I use that will any mail I have
>> been deleted?
>>
>> 2) Does the import feature work vs just pulling over the mail boxes and
>> dropping them in the file structure?
>>
>> Wade
>>    

R> As far as I know, Thunderbird doesn't import mail from itself. (The
R> import feature is for migrating from other mail programs, from a
R> limited selection.) Copying the mail files into the directory
R> structure is what you want. I would first create a new subfolder
R> where you can drop the whole lot without worrying about overwriting
R> existing files. 

I just 'imported' some email files from an older version. I first
added a new 'email-old' folder in TB. I then put the older files in
the actual 'email-old' dir on the disk. I renamed them so as not to
have dupes; inbox became inbox-old, etc. One old file, inbox, was
1+gig, and TB was NOT happy indexing it, so most of the mail was not
visible in TB. I split the file about in half, on the proper 'From'
boundary [very important!], renamed the two files, put them in the
dir, and TB was then happy to index them correctly, with all the mail
visible. The file names you put in the dir become new folders in TB,
after they are indexed - you don't have to create them by hand. Also,
the 1gig+ files took a loooong time to index - it looks like a crash,
but is not.

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 rikona