Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bret Busby]

On 10/7/23 02:38, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 10/7/23 02:31, Bret Busby wrote:
>> On 10/7/23 02:22, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On 10/7/23 00:00, Bo Berglund wrote:
>>>> I know this is not an Ubuntu question but I hope that someone here 
>>>> can point me
>>>> in the right direction...
>>>>
>>>> I want to get off of Microsoft Outlook email and use for instance 
>>>> Thunderbird
>>>> instead (should work on both Windows and Ubuntu).
>>>> What I am trying to find facts about is the conversion of the old 
>>>> email store I
>>>> have (massive since 1998 and migrated between Outlook versions to 
>>>> currently
>>>> Outlook 2019).
>>>>
>>>> So can it be done? (When I checked some years back it could not...)
>>>> Where can I ask such questions and be on topic?
>>>>
>>>
>>> https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail
>>>
>>> Personally, I primarily use Thunderbird like a webmail facility; 
>>> monitoring incoming email,and, responding to (and, composing) 
>>> messages, as needed/wanted, and, I use alpine (previously known as 
>>> pine) for downloading and storing messages, and, dealing with, 
>>> including responding to, historical messages, as I found pine/alpine 
>>> to be the most powerful email application, dealing with about 20GB 
>>
>> 24GB
> 
> (13640 files (folders (?) of messages) )
> 
>>
>>> of email, going back about 20 years, involving hundreds of filters, 
>>> some (many) of which, having hundreds of filter field values.
>>>
>>
> 

Interestingly, coinciding with this thread, is the Debian advisory...

"
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-5451-1                   security at debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/                       Moritz Muehlenhoff
July 09, 2023                         https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : thunderbird
CVE ID         : CVE-2023-37201 CVE-2023-37202 CVE-2023-37207
                  CVE-2023-37208 CVE-2023-37211
Debian Bug     : 971790 1006432

Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could
result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

For the oldstable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed
in version 1:102.13.0-1~deb11u1.

For the stable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:102.13.0-1~deb12u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your thunderbird packages.
"


The Thunderbird version that I am using, having checked for updates in 
the last few hours, is "102.11.0 (64-bit)" .

So, I am assuming that Ubuntu is a Thunderbird version behind Debian?

That assumption is based on the assumption of the version number in 
Debian, before the above advisory, being 1:102-12.<etc> .

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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