On 02/09/2020 07:54 AM, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > isync-devel mailing list > isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
Thank you, I will create a new temporary e-mail account on my e-mail server, push them there using mbsync, then download all using Thunderbird and finally moving them to a local folder. _______________________________________________ isync-devel mailing list isync-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/isync-devel
