How to import outlook emails into Thunderbird, both on different systems?

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  • Justin John

    I have folder(Outlook Express) of emails from outlook of other system.

    I need to import these emails to my system in Thunderbird. My system doesn't have Outlook.

    I only have copied folder of outlook in my system.

    How to import these emails to Thunderbird?

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  • chris

    I have both a .thunderbird and a .mozilla-thunderbird from an existing installation.

    I installed Thunderbird 3.0b3 under fedora 11, but it doesn't seem to see the email in either of those directories.

    How can I restore my old settings & email?


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  • John T

    You should be able to simply drop them into your home directory.

    example:

    cp -r /media/USBStick/backup/.thunderbird ~
cp -r /media/USBStick/backup/.mozilla-thunderbird ~

    make sure your applications also have sufficient read permissions to these files.

  • Johan

    I always used [code]cp --archive SOURCE TARGET/[/code] to duplicate folder trees. The [b]--archive[/b] option does everything as [code]--recursive --no-dereference --preserve=all[/code]. Where [b]--preserve=all[/b] includes mode,ownership,timestamps, context, links, xattr.

    There are too many soft links and ownership and permission details that a straight [code]cp -r[/code] does not accomplish.

    ~~~ 0;-Dan