10.4: Export Mail messages to Thunderbird, revisited

Mar 30, '06 05:38:00AM

Contributed by: uid73397

Tiger only hintApple Mail v2 does not use the .mbox format as the Panther version did. At least, that's what it looks like.

While trying to move my mail to Mozilla Thunderbird, I could not find a way to export my mailboxes. However, if you open Apple Mail and drag and drop a mail folder onto the desktop, the folder is called Foldername.mbox, with Foldername being the name of the Apple Mail folder. I had no trouble importing this folder into Thunderbird.

[robg adds: This hint covered another way to do this, though it relied on a third party program, and included some fixes for potentially troublesome emails.]

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