Comments on: migrating from Thunderbird to Claws Mail http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/ that's stuff, that is Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: p http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-18343 p Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:33:10 +0000 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/#comment-18343 <p>Martin: Thunderbird can export your mailbox to MBOX, then this can be imported by Claws Mail (/File/Import MBOX file...). Perhaps you want to try this method instead.</p> Martin: Thunderbird can export your mailbox to MBOX, then this can be imported by Claws Mail (/File/Import MBOX file…). Perhaps you want to try this method instead.

]]> By: Martin http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-18342 Martin Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:14:56 +0000 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/#comment-18342 <p>Your conversion script sounds promising but unfortunately it crashes on my system:</p> <p>Traceback (most recent call last): File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 118, in convert<em>tree(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]) File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 112, in convert</em>tree os.path.join(out<em>treepath,outpath,f)) File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 96, in process</em>file make<em>messages(outputdir, filepath, offs, 1) File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 83, in make</em>messages lines = open(filepath).readlines() OverflowError: line is longer than a Python string can hold</p> Your conversion script sounds promising but unfortunately it crashes on my system:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 118, in
converttree(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 112, in converttree
os.path.join(outtreepath,outpath,f))
File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 96, in processfile
makemessages(outputdir, filepath, offs, 1)
File "/tmp/claws-mail-tbird2claws/tbird2claws.py", line 83, in makemessages
lines = open(filepath).readlines()
OverflowError: line is longer than a Python string can hold

]]> By: p http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-18293 p Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:22:06 +0000 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/#comment-18293 <p>I've never used thunderbird myself and thus never used this script. Did you read the README? The script takes two arguments, the first is the path to you thunderbird mailbox, the second is the path to the Claws Mail mail folder. Is there something more specific than that that you need to know?</p> <p>Alternately, I believe thunderbird has support for MBOX formatted mailboxes, (perhaps through an add-on). If your thunderbird mailbox is in MBOX format then you can import it into Claws Mail using '/File/Import MBOX file' from with Claws Mail.</p> I've never used thunderbird myself and thus never used this script. Did you read the README? The script takes two arguments, the first is the path to you thunderbird mailbox, the second is the path to the Claws Mail mail folder. Is there something more specific than that that you need to know?

Alternately, I believe thunderbird has support for MBOX formatted mailboxes, (perhaps through an add-on). If your thunderbird mailbox is in MBOX format then you can import it into Claws Mail using '/File/Import MBOX file' from with Claws Mail.

]]> By: deepak http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/comment-page-1/#comment-18288 deepak Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:24:08 +0000 http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/migrating-from-thunderbird-to-claws-mail/#comment-18288 <p>The mailbox conversion script did not work for me. Can you guide me how to use it?</p> <p>Thanks</p> The mailbox conversion script did not work for me. Can you guide me how to use it?

Thanks

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