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A script to export Mail's mboxes for Thunderbird
Authored by: Pedro Estarque on Dec 13, '04 03:37:03PM

On my attempts to import to Thunderbird the email body worked OK but the attachments were missing. I think Mail.app stores its attachments in a folder like: "subject_of_email.mimeattach" and Thunderbird doesn't understand how to link them.
The funny thing is that the folders are only "created" when you open the attachment. Where they were before is beyond me



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A script to export Mail's mboxes for Thunderbird
Authored by: aamann on Dec 13, '04 07:10:06PM

The atttachments are part of the messages themselves - the additional file created with the name you mentioned will only be created when opening (and might be deleted at any moment thereafter) - it just gives external programs a file to open since they cannot open an (encoded) file in the middle of the message itself.



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