Re: [LUG] Evolution Migration to Thunderbird

[Neil Williams <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Evans wrote:
> Julian Hall wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After much aggravation I have managed to export my Address Book from 
> > Evolution 1.4 to Mozilla Thunderbird.  However, Mozilla does not allow 
> > import of *mail* from anything but Netscape 4 Communicator, while
>
>
> IIRC Netscape (and Mozilla's) mail format is mbox.

It is, there are lots of tools, mainly courtesy of the developers at 
Eudora. There are also tips at the MHonArc site:
www.mhonarc.org

>> Evolution's "export" facilities.... umm.. it doesn't have *any*....

But the mailbox can be read by tools and put into mbox format. Pity that 
 Ximian developers don't fold some of them into Evolution.
:-)

> You could always use IMAP.


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