[kdepim-users] KMail import from Thunderbird

brian brian at meadows.pair.com
Sat Aug 30 13:04:48 BST 2008


On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:39:03 +0200, you wrote:

>Den Saturday 30 August 2008 10.49.10 skrev brian:
>> Anyone else having problems trying to import e-mails from Thunderbird
>> to KMail? The Thunderbird setup has multiple sub-folders, KMail's
>> import routine seems to import the first sub-tree only and then hangs.
>> The messages are all there in KMail from that first sub-tree, but then
>> nothing happens. According to KSysGuard the import process is still
>> getting plenty of CPU cycles (like about 70% of a 1.8 GHz P4), and
>> I've left it running over night to find no further progress the
>> following morning. There's no sign of the hard drive being accessed,
>> looks to me like the program gets stuck in a loop somewhere. KMail
>> 1.9.9/KDE 3.5.9 using Mandriva 2008. The PC has 2.5GB of memory, and
>> it's not making any significant use of the swap file.
>>
>> Any ideas, anyone?
>
>Could this be related?
>
>http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166023
>

I don't see how it can be related. This bug seems to deal with
renaming problems *after* the folders have been imported. I can't get
them to import successfully. 

<paste>

Use 'Import Messages...' to import Thunderbird messages.
**When imported**, right-click on imported messages folder.

</paste> (I added the emphasis)


Brian. 
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