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Import mailboxes from Thunderbird into Mail.app
Not sure why all these steps are necessary. If you just choose the Netscape/Mozilla option in Mail.app's Import command, it should find all the mbox files for Thunderbird, assuming you point to the ~/Library/Thunderbird/... directory, as specified in the hint.
Import mailboxes from Thunderbird into Mail.app
Except that it usually doesn't. And if it does find them, you will note that a significant percentage of your email did not get imported. The times I tried to do this, there were hundreds of emails that didn't get imported.
Import mailboxes from Thunderbird into Mail.app
Yes, I'm aware of the cleanmbox script. I'm the author. :)
Import mailboxes from Thunderbird into Mail.app
I had nothing but problems using mail.app's import command. Mainly doing w/ larger folders that had been put into archive mode. I ended up setting up an imap server on a linux box... dragged my folders to my imap account in thunderbird, and then hooked into imap w/ mail.app, and dragged all the folders local. That was the result of MUCH searching on this subject on the web (switching from windows to os x). |
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