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On 01/06/2013 09:10 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> I've got Thunderbird to connect to my ISP and fetch new messages, |
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> but I now have another, large problem. It won't import my 25,000 or |
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> so messages from kmail, nor even its filters. I do not wish to lose |
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> all that history, so can anyone suggest another e-mail client that |
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> can reliably import messages and filters from kmail? |
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That seems like it will likely be tricky. I don't know a lot about |
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kmail, but I've got two ideas that might work: |
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1) Depending on what kmail can do, you might be able to set up a |
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maildir or mbox folder with kmail, and have kmail transfer all that |
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mail into it. I believe Thunderbird can ready both mbox and maildir, |
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so that might be a nice solution if kmail can do that. |
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2) Another idea I thought of that might be heavy handed, but might |
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also work would be to set up an IMAP server of your own. Then you can |
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connect kmail to that IMAP server, transfer all your mail to the |
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server, then connect Thunderbird to it and import it. It's certainly |
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not a simple idea, but it should work. Cyrus is the IMAP server that I |
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use, but there are others, and perhaps some that are simpler to configure. |
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Hope this helps! |
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