Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

[Bret Busby]

On 10/7/23 02:47, Bret Busby wrote:
> 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...
> 
> "
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
> - -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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> .
> 

Correction - "Ubuntu is a Thunderbird version behind Debian?" should 
probably (I accept correction, if I am wrong) be "Ubuntu is a 
Thunderbird point version behind Debian?", and, where I wrote above , 
"1:102-12", that should have instead, been "1:102.12"

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