From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 01:02:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2A2106564A for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:02:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89E1A8FC2E for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:02:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-196-68-197.dynamic.qsc.de [92.196.68.197]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A5A16C009B; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:02:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n0N12fd8001625; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:02:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:02:41 +0100 From: Polytropon To: matt donovan Message-Id: <20090123020241.eda75ad9.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <28283d910901211500x16c52643s879559ee17679bbe@mail.gmail.com> References: <496CA938.60903@thenetnow.com> <496CB890.4070700@gmail.com> <496CD550.5060701@thenetnow.com> <496CED86.1090608@thenetnow.com> <20090121180143.GA11062@kokopelli.hydra> <28283d910901211500x16c52643s879559ee17679bbe@mail.gmail.com> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kurt Buff , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:02:52 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:00:19 -0500, matt donovan wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:50:55AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: > > >> > > >> And, unfortunately, that doesn't help. I think the procedure described > > >> by George Davidovich is your best bet. > > > > > > I haven't used Thunderbird in a very long time, but . . . can't you > > > import emails from OE to Thunderbird on the MS Windows system, then move > > > them from the MS Windows system to the FreeBSD system and import them to > > > Thunderbird there? > > > > > > -- > > > Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] > > > Quoth Niccolo Machiavelli: "It is a common failing of man not to take > > > account of tempests during fair weather." > > > > I don't know. I haven't used OE in over 10 years. > > > > From what I heard no since Windows thunderbird is different then the layout > of the *nix thunderbird. but that was a while ago I heard that As far as I know - it's been a long time, please mind this - OE uses a proprietary mail storage system, while TB uses the standard mbox system. The FreeBSD ports do contain a converter OE -> mbox, and after transforming the OE boxes into mbox format, they should be importable without problems. Another idea would be to "manually import" them, this means that you would not use TB's import function, but instead locate where it stores mail, check file naming conventions and then put the mail in there manually, hoping that TB would recognize and maybe index them at next startup. I'm not sure about how the OE -> mbox converter from the ports collection was called, but I remember having read it somewhere... Sorry for being such unprecise, but I haven't used any MICROS~1 product for more than 20 years now... =^_^= -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...