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Problems importing messages from Evolution

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I am trying to move messages stored in Evolution to Thunderbird. Your site at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-import#w_how-to-import-settings-and-data-with-the-import-tool says that I can import messages from Outlook (which should be similar to Evolution), but the actual Thunderbird I am using (102.10.0) does not offer that option. There is also a discussion at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-thunderbird# which advises me to "Copy all the file without extension (such as Inbox, Outbox,.." into Thunderbird's directory, but in fact Evolution seems to now store each message as a separate file, and copying all of these to Thunderbird doesn't yield anything Thunderbird can read. For example, here are some of the filenames:taxpayer@monk:~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/..2023/cur$ ls -l |head total 242988 -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 52595 Jan 3 10:58 1672765088.496249_0.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 179817 Jan 3 12:18 1672769896.496249_1.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 122917 Jan 4 13:23 1672860217.545385_2.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 18647 Jan 4 15:41 1672868499.545385_3.monk:2, -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 10301 Jan 4 19:31 1672882302.589060_4.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 24847 Jan 5 08:56 1672930560.589060_5.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 8388 Jan 6 12:42 1673030521.652066_6.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 157420 Jan 8 14:10 1673208601.36298_7.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 37577 Jan 8 22:46 1673239585.67431_8.monk:2,S (My computer is named "monk") Have you any suggestion how I can move these files? Thanks.

I am trying to move messages stored in Evolution to Thunderbird. Your site at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-import#w_how-to-import-settings-and-data-with-the-import-tool says that I can import messages from Outlook (which should be similar to Evolution), but the actual Thunderbird I am using (102.10.0) does not offer that option. There is also a discussion at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-thunderbird# which advises me to "Copy all the file without extension (such as Inbox, Outbox,.." into Thunderbird's directory, but in fact Evolution seems to now store each message as a separate file, and copying all of these to Thunderbird doesn't yield anything Thunderbird can read. For example, here are some of the filenames:taxpayer@monk:~/.local/share/evolution/mail/local/..2023/cur$ ls -l |head total 242988 -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 52595 Jan 3 10:58 1672765088.496249_0.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 179817 Jan 3 12:18 1672769896.496249_1.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 122917 Jan 4 13:23 1672860217.545385_2.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 18647 Jan 4 15:41 1672868499.545385_3.monk:2, -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 10301 Jan 4 19:31 1672882302.589060_4.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 24847 Jan 5 08:56 1672930560.589060_5.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 8388 Jan 6 12:42 1673030521.652066_6.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 157420 Jan 8 14:10 1673208601.36298_7.monk:2,S -rw------- 1 taxpayer taxpayer 37577 Jan 8 22:46 1673239585.67431_8.monk:2,S (My computer is named "monk") Have you any suggestion how I can move these files? Thanks.

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OK, appears to be solved. The secret is to have Evolution save each directory in mbox format, which you can do by selecting all the messages in the directory. Then, T'bird can read the messages.