On Sat, Feb 08, 2020 at 05:45:14PM -0500, H wrote:
one of my accounts no longer exists but I have the archive and would
like to restore only to a local Thunderbird folder so I can read the
old mail, search it etc. in Thunderbird.
thunderbird cannot access maildir folders (which i'm assuming your
archives are), so you need to somehow serve them via imap.
either you manage to serve them directly by pointing f.ex. dovecot to
them, or you'll need a separate server. in the latter case you could
just change the server in the old mbsync config, run the sync, and then
throw away the archive and the config.
once the archive is loaded into thunderbird, you can move the messages
to its local folders and throw away the imap server (incl. mailboxes),
but i'm not sure i'd trust its "proprietary" mailboxes, in particular
through upgrades. also, switching the MUA would be more effort then.
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