[kdepim-users] KMail import from Thunderbird

[brian]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:40:44 +0300, you wrote:

>2008/8/30 brian <brian at meadows.pair.com>:
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Brian.
>
>Do you have large attachments in your Thunderbird email? I had one
>email with a 40MB zip file that I had to erase in order to import with
>Kmail. But that was a few versions back.
>

Well, that's certainly a possibility. I'll have to try to work out
exactly which folder is causing the problems, because the import
certainly doesn't appear to be in alphabetical order at the top level,
and the problem seems to come after the first sub-tree has been
imported. 

>Try copying your ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/***.default/Mail/Local\
>Folders into a separate directory, and import the subsubdirectories
>piecemeal.

OK, that's certainly worth a try, better than having to export the
Thunderbird e-mails then re-import them as plain mbx files, or worse
yet, after converting them to maildirs. 

I'll give it a whirl later today. 

Thanks for the hints. 


Brian. 

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