Import / Export Email: Research Links
- Location of Outlook Express email archives
- Importing Outlook Express Emails Into Thunderbird And Evolution – this method worked well
- Installing Thunderbird on Linux
- Setting and changing email passwords – Thunderbird doesn't provide a way for a user to enter the POP/IMAP/SMTP servers password when configuring a account. ( Yep it confused me! )
- How to change Thunderbird stored password
- how to set interval to download email? – Edit > Account Settings > Server Settings under the particular email account in questions. Looks like everything is set to 5 minute default
- Can't delete a folder if Trash already contains a folder of the same name
- How to put copy of sent items in sent folder – Edit > Account Settings > Copy & Folder
- Email Filters
- Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.
- how to update Thunderbird?
- how to sort incoming email into correct folders
- how good is the spam filter?
Summary of Effort
I had one issue with importing / transferring files over to my Ubuntu linux laptop. One of the subfolders had many subfolders of its own and did not show up. I imported from Outlook Express 6 (2004 ouch! ) again and copied the relevant sub archive into the right location on my linux laptop. At that point it did not show up on Thunderbird even after a restart so I manually made a subfolder in the correct location on thunderbird and when I went into the folder all the emails showed up. This was a little trickier than what I portrayed with that sentence. Actually when I tried to create the folder with the same name under thunderbird it choked and said "can not do it there is already a folder with that name". At this point I made a folder with SAMENAME-2 and then used nautilus file explorer to copy all the files over to the folder SAMENAME-2. At that point I could go back to Thunderbird and rename the folder to remove the -2.
It would have been better if Thunderbird had imported everything correctly. This is the sort of thing that can leave you with lingering doubt.
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