Migrate Outlook into Thunderbird?

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On 07/14/2023 09:16 AM, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
> On 7/13/23 19:15, Bo Berglund wrote:
>> Still, now it seems like I have to create the email accounts manually in TB and
>> then test importing the old emails to it via the mbox files.
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> You will need to create the accounts, but “importing” would be merely selecting and dragging messages from Local Folders into whatever folders in those accounts.
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>> Someone suggested to use the mbox files directly by just moving them into the
>> ThunderBird profile, how can that work?
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> If readpst exported into MBOXes, you can just put them in ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/Mail/Local Folders/. You can have any folder structure you like in Local Folders.
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>> Is TB using mbox as its own storage system?
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> Yes, it is. For Local Folders and, if one chooses to Synchronize any remote account folders, then those will also be in MBOX format in ~/.thunderbird/<profile>/ImapMail/<account>/.
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On a closely related subject, does anyone have good experience converting Thunderbird mbox email files to maildir file format? I have tried mb2md with somewhat mixed results but I know there are different minor versions floating around and I am not sure I have the latest and greatest one...

I have large mailboxes I need to convert from Thunderbird to maildir to use with mutt/neomutt (and similar) MUAs. By the way, my platform is Linux, specifically CentOS 7.

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