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| Bernard... |
 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:35 am |
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Hi to Everyone,
I have recently moved from Debian Sarge to Lenny. This was not an
upgrade, but a re-install. My old data is stored on a usb disk. Under
Sarge, I used to receive my mail through Mozilla-thunderbird.
How can I recuperate my old mails onto my new system ?
Can I import mails, address book etc. directly from Thunderbird into
Evolution, or shall I have to install Thunderbird onto my new Lenny
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| Nico Kadel-Garcia... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:35 am |
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On Aug 29, 11:35 am, Bernard <bdebr... at (no spam) teaser.fr> wrote:
Quote: Hi to Everyone,
I have recently moved from Debian Sarge to Lenny. This was not an
upgrade, but a re-install. My old data is stored on a usb disk. Under
Sarge, I used to receive my mail through Mozilla-thunderbird.
How can I recuperate my old mails onto my new system ?
Can I import mails, address book etc. directly from Thunderbird into
Evolution, or shall I have to install Thunderbird onto my new Lenny
system ?
How were they stored locally? If I remember, Thunderbird uses
something like IMAPDIR, so it should be possible to drop the mail
folders under a modern IMAP server and read them as IMAP mailboxes
from the local server, and relocate them as necessary from there. |
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| Fred Talmadge... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 3:07 pm |
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I'm not familiar with Evolution, but it shouldn't matter. I like to export
my old emails and addresses and then import them to the new version. The
trick is that you may have to install TB again to accomplish this. There
are some converters out there but none of them ever worked for me.
Fred
Bernard wrote:
Quote: Hi to Everyone,
I have recently moved from Debian Sarge to Lenny. This was not an
upgrade, but a re-install. My old data is stored on a usb disk. Under
Sarge, I used to receive my mail through Mozilla-thunderbird.
How can I recuperate my old mails onto my new system ?
Can I import mails, address book etc. directly from Thunderbird into
Evolution, or shall I have to install Thunderbird onto my new Lenny
system ? |
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| Hans-Peter Diettrich... |
| Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:32 pm |
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Bernard schrieb:
Quote: I have recently moved from Debian Sarge to Lenny. This was not an
upgrade, but a re-install. My old data is stored on a usb disk. Under
Sarge, I used to receive my mail through Mozilla-thunderbird.
Due to the long outstanding im/export capability of Thunderbird I have
put it into a VM since long. That VM already survived moves to several
new systems. Putting the archive onto a independent virtual disk allows
to reset the guest system to an clean snapshot, e.g. after a virus
infection, without loss of mails and news. (At least in my Win98 guest)
When you install Thunderbird in a VM, and initialize it to use a second
disk for its archive, it should be possible to replace that directory
tree by the tree on your USB disk. This did work for me at least in a
move to a bigger archive disk.
Finally move the entire VM to your external drive, usable on whatever
host system you ever want to use :-)
DoDi |
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| Nico Kadel-Garcia... |
| Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:19 am |
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On Aug 30, 9:19 am, Bernard <bdebr... at (no spam) teaser.fr> wrote:
Quote: Le Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:24:53 +0000, Bernard a écrit :
Le Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:32:32 +0200, Hans-Peter Diettrich a écrit :
Bernard schrieb:
I have recently moved from Debian Sarge to Lenny. This was not an
upgrade, but a re-install. My old data is stored on a usb disk. Under
Sarge, I used to receive my mail through Mozilla-thunderbird.
Due to the long outstanding im/export capability of Thunderbird I have
put it into a VM since long. That VM already survived moves to several
new systems. Putting the archive onto a independent virtual disk allows
to reset the guest system to an clean snapshot, e.g. after a virus
infection, without loss of mails and news. (At least in my Win98 guest)
My problem is different. My old machine with Thunderbird is no longer
running. The files and directories that were on my hard disks have been
transfered to an external usb disk.
At first, I need to know in which files and directories my e-mail were
stored. I have carried a quick search, but I didn't find anything so
far. Since I no longer have a running Thunderbird in any machine at
hand, I cannot investigate.
Once I have identified the filing of my old mails, I hope I can import
them in my new machine, no problem if I have to install Icedove or
Thunderbird for the purpose of this job.
This is it, I have succeeded. I just copied my old '.mozilla-thunderbird'
directory with all its subdirectories and files, to my /home/bd
directory. Then I installed apt-get install icedove. At the first call of
'icedove', I found all my old thunderbird archives available. I just have
to ditch 'evolution' now.
Thanks for your help
Fabulous! Thunderbird used a very robust design philosophy, of keeping
its components simple and very standard formats, that I treasure in
open source software.
The only excuse for Evolution is Microsoft Exchange access, which it
does not do that well at last check: I found its interactions with the
Exchange calendar.... unfortunate. |
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