[GTALUG] Importing mbox into Thunderbird?

[William Witteman]

I have been sitting on this question for ages, because I have had similar
problems (long ago now) when I was moving between email clients.

I don't have my fingertips on a solution, if one is still needed, but here
are two approaches that might work:

1.  Stand up a mailserver (there are some very simple ones), and use that
to import your mail into Thunderbird.  This may require converting your
mbox file into something else, but this is an old problem that has
established tools.

2.  Figure out what format Thuderbird wants to store mail in, convert that,
and move it into the expected place for mail in the filesystem.  This may
require rebuilding an index for your mailbox, but the last time I used
Thunderbird it wasn't hard to do that.

Good luck!

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 13:52, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> I'm beginning to like Thunderbird.  It replaces fetchmail, procmail,
> sendmail, mutt, and vim for mailing.  I miss vim, though.
>
> Now, the question on hand... I have lots of "mbox" format files of old
> emails.  How do I import into Thunderbird?  Online talks about "Import MBOX
> file" under "Tools".  But, mine (68.12.0) don't have such entry.
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