Re: Faster way to import Thunderbird pop emails into dovecot imap Maildirs?

On Mar 2, 2017 2:11 AM, "Steffen Kaiser" skdovecot@smail.inf.fh-brs.de wrote:

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Ian Evans wrote:

I'm sure someone here is going to point me to some eureka moment method of

exporting the thunderbird folders to some format, sftp'ing them to the server and importing. Just want to be careful that I don't mess up the current batch of emails on the imap server.

Some time ago Thunderbird was using mbox-style format to store messages locally. It this is true today and for your installation, you can try the mb2md scripts:

http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.