Thunderbird for Android Community Forum

I looked up how to import from Gmail into Thunderbird but, after doing an export from Gmail to MBOX, realised the instructions appear to be for Thunderbird for desktop.

I'm using POP/SMTP.

So I have my email sitting in an MBOX file on my phone, but I can't find any instructions on how to import the email to Thunderbird for Android.

I moved to Thunderbird for Android, away from K9mail, because K9 wouldn't seem to download all my messages. Worked fine for a while, then just started downloading one email per fetch even though there were hundreds yet more to download.

I read about the import feature for Thunderbird and so installed onto both PC and mobile phone. Now I can't see how to get the mail onto the phone.

I've been searching for more than 24 hours now for a solution. It probably doesn't help that a search for Thunderbird for Android still brings up solutions for Thunderbird for desktop.

Can anyone here assist?

i know that thunderbird for android works differently than desktop version, that's ok. i ask here to add to thunderbird-android function of backup emails to mbox-file, collect emails from selected server and make backup in mbox file which can than be opened in thunderbird-desktop. i must emphasize, i don't ask that thunderbird-android should be capable of handling mbox-files, this would be pure backup functionality.