Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-20 Thread Ángel
On 2019-02-20 at 03:05 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > Tried Milan's suggestion about using the "Standard Unix mbox spool > directory". This did allow me to get my hierarchy of saved folders > over to Evolution. However, each folder and subfolder name now > has .sbd added to it. The name

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-20 Thread Reid Thompson
There are multiple command line applications that will convert mbox to maildir. You can write a script to make a copy of your mbox files in a working area and convert the messages in the copy(ies) to maildir format in a location of your choice to be imported into evo.

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-19 Thread Bill and Carol Yager
Tried Milan's suggestion about using the "Standard Unix mbox spool directory". This did allow me to get my hierarchy of saved folders over to Evolution. However, each folder and subfolder name now has .sbd added to it. The name can't be modified and the error message says that the file

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-18 Thread AtomicCanine via evolution-list
There is an extension which I once used, and seems to still be compatible with TB 60, called "Import/Export Tools". The developer's website for this tool is https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html and it's also on the TB AddOns site. I won't reproduce the list of what this does here

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 14:33 +0100, Milan Crha via evolution-list wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > > Is it because Evo is now using a different email method than > > Thunderbird (maildir vs mbox)? > > Hi, > yes, I believe the old methods do not work,

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-18 Thread Milan Crha via evolution-list
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > Is it because Evo is now using a different email method than > Thunderbird (maildir vs mbox)? Hi, yes, I believe the old methods do not work, because of the different formats. I would try: a) copy Thunderbird MBOX files into

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-18 Thread Bill and Carol Yager
-- Original Message -- From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" To: evolution-list@gnome.org Sent: 2/18/2019 1:59:01 AM Subject: Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: Home\t

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > Home\thunderbird\xx.default\Mail\Local Folders\Saved_Mail.sbd Sorry, but I have to ask: are those the actual pathnames, including 'Home' and the '\' characters? Because if they are it looks like you're using Windows. poc

Re: [Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-17 Thread Andre Klapper
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 00:54 +, Bill and Carol Yager wrote: > My Evo version is: 3.30.1and I am set up for POP3 using > ATT.com serrver > > I have many, many saved emails organized in hundreds of sub-folder > hierarchies in Thunderbird 60.4.0. I believe the Thunderbird formt > is

[Evolution] No Matter What I Try, Can't Move Thunderbird Archives to Evo

2019-02-17 Thread Bill and Carol Yager
My Evo version is: 3.30.1and I am set up for POP3 using ATT.com serrver I have many, many saved emails organized in hundreds of sub-folder hierarchies in Thunderbird 60.4.0. I believe the Thunderbird formt is Mbox while the Evo system is using Maildir. For two weeks I have been