[SGVLUG] Evolution to Thunderbird

Emerson, Tom Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com
Thu Feb 2 12:51:19 PST 2006


> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Steve Bibayoff
> 
> On 2/1/06, Jason Riker <jasonrkr at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> > I'm looking to migrate from Evolution 2.4 to Thunderbird 1.5, but I
> > can't seem to find a way to move my e-mail from one to the other.
> [...]
> 
> Have you seen:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail
> 
and from the opposite side, you might find this useful (if annoying considering the number of advertisements)

http://email.about.com/cs/evolutiontips/qt/et110103.htm

which, in a nutshell, points out that Evolution saves files in "mbox" format.  The very end of the article Steve mentioned talks about importing mbox files.

A little more on "export evolution e-mail" from google reveals:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2003-February/msg00151.html

which contains a perl script to export your /contacts/ folder as vcards.

or just plain cut to the chase here;

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/10/1446217

"how to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird"


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