Re: Importing mail into Thunderbird from Sylpheed

[Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>]

On 11-06-23 06:39 PM, lee wrote:
> Frank McCormick<debianlist@videotron.ca>  writes:
>
> > Just finished Googling the subject but there doesn't seem to be any
> > easy way to get mail from Sylpheed into Thunderbird.  Does anyone have
> > suggestions?
> ,---- [ http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/doc/faq/en/sylpheed-faq-1.html#d0e177 ]
> | Mails are stored in the MH mailfile format as used by MH and EMH.
> `----
>
> ,---- [ http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail ]
> | Thunderbird, Netscape, Mozilla Suite and SeaMonkey use mbox files to
> | store the messages for a folder.
> `----
>
> ,---- [ http://oclug.on.ca/archives/oclug/2005-October/047793.html ]
> | Thanks for the tip Dave.  As it turned out, Sylpheed itself now has a
> | built-in 'export' feature that will convert the default MH format to
> | traditional Mbox e.g.  File>  Export...
> `----
>
> See also man formail.
As soon as I figured out Sylpheed can export an MH file, and T'bird
can read it after indexing...everything went fine.
Thank you very much. The links helped.