Rant over… to those complaining about lack of export options, here’s a trick I learned when trying to export/re-import my mail in Outlook Express a few years ago, which had the same problem. It might be unimportant to most users posting here, but for dialup users it’s a bit of a pain to have to download the whole release when they could be getting a much smaller delta package if MozCorp would just use the delivery-system they spent so much effort developing. I expect we’ll still be waiting for a Thunderbird update come Christmas. In October… and 1.5.* users are still waiting for the upgrade package. That same line was applied to Firefox when 2.0 was released. Thunderbird 1.5.0.x users will be offered Thunderbird 2 via software update at a later date. It’s always nice if standards are supported, at least at converter level. mbox? Comeone people, we are suffering here…” “Is it too mcuh to ask for them to write an importer for. You can break up mboxes by yourself (with help of a processing script, of course). You can use mbox2mdir to convert mbox into qmail compatible Maildir, if this is a compatible type, I’m not sure. “I mean, it is the default standard, the grandaddy of all email formats and yet there is no easy way to import mbox folders.” So it’s possible to use different mail clients upon one and the same database (granted that the format is equivalent, e. For example, tools like fetchmail read the messages from a POP3 server and place it into the user’s mailbox (/var/mail/$USER) where any (!) program can get the mail from. mbox!!”Īs far as I know, mbox and MH are the two main representation formats for mail while an mbox file represents a mail folder and holds the messages concatenated as file segments, MH uses a singe file for each message and directory subtrees for the mail folders. “The feature i refer to is – no importer for.

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