Migrating from Thunderbird to Kontact(KMail)

Post by JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
Hi, people! I've been using TB for 2 years. So I have lots of mail. I want
to migrate all that mail to KMail. How can I do that?
P.S.: I don't care about migrating all configurations. Just want the mail
tree imported into Kmail. I hope you can help me, because I already
searched in the kdepim-users mail archive and in google and nothing.

In KMail, Tools > Import Messages > Drop-down list for Thunderbird/Mozilla

Anne

Marc Deop i Argemí

2006-04-12 18:43:25 UTC

Post by JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
Hi, people! I've been using TB for 2 years. So I have lots of mail. I
want to migrate all that mail to KMail. How can I do that?
P.S.: I don't care about migrating all configurations. Just want the mail
tree imported into Kmail. I hope you can help me, because I already
searched in the kdepim-users mail archive and in google and nothing.

In KMail, Tools > Import Messages > Drop-down list for Thunderbird/Mozilla
Anne

I've got that option in the 'File' menu ;)

Marc

Art Alexion

2006-04-12 18:56:02 UTC

Post by Marc Deop i ArgemÃ

In KMail, Tools > Import Messages > Drop-down list for
Thunderbird/Mozilla
Anne

I've got that option in the 'File' menu

Same here with kmail 1.9.1/kde 3.5.2
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2006-04-12 20:03:08 UTC

Post by Marc Deop i ArgemÃ

Post by JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
Hi, people! I've been using TB for 2 years. So I have lots of mail. I
want to migrate all that mail to KMail. How can I do that?
P.S.: I don't care about migrating all configurations. Just want the
mail tree imported into Kmail. I hope you can help me, because I
already searched in the kdepim-users mail archive and in google and
nothing.

In KMail, Tools > Import Messages > Drop-down list for
Thunderbird/Mozilla
Anne

I've got that option in the 'File' menu ;)

yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to "Import" being
a "File" menu action, even though technically from a coding perspective it's
an external Tool. =)

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Anne Wilson

2006-04-12 20:47:53 UTC

Post by Marc Deop i ArgemÃ

Post by Aaron J. Seigo

Post by JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
Hi, people! I've been using TB for 2 years. So I have lots of mail. I
want to migrate all that mail to KMail. How can I do that?
P.S.: I don't care about migrating all configurations. Just want the
mail tree imported into Kmail. I hope you can help me, because I
already searched in the kdepim-users mail archive and in google and
nothing.

In KMail, Tools > Import Messages > Drop-down list for
Thunderbird/Mozilla
Anne

I've got that option in the 'File' menu ;)

yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to "Import"
being a "File" menu action, even though technically from a coding
perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long time ago, so
I never looked anywhere else

Anne

Derek Broughton

2006-04-13 00:20:14 UTC

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to "Import"
being a "File" menu action, even though technically from a coding
perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long time ago,
so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both. Under what
conditions can you actually use it?

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Anne Wilson

2006-04-13 07:00:54 UTC

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to
"Import" being a "File" menu action, even though technically from a
coding perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long time
ago, so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both. Under what
conditions can you actually use it?

Never met that problem. Could it be some missing kde packages?

Anne

Art Alexion

2006-04-13 15:43:26 UTC

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to
"Import" being a "File" menu action, even though technically from a
coding perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long time
ago, so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both. Under
what conditions can you actually use it?

Never met that problem. Could it be some missing kde packages?

I have kmail 1.9.1/kde 3.5.2/kubuntu 5.10 (breezy). Only in file menu; not
greyed out.
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Derek Broughton

2006-04-13 12:23:38 UTC

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to
"Import" being a "File" menu action, even though technically from a
coding perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long time
ago, so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both. Under
what conditions can you actually use it?

Never met that problem. Could it be some missing kde packages?

Given Júlio's response, I assume it must be, but there's no way I'm going to
install the kde metapackage to get it - I don't have any mail I need to
import (and when I do, I just do it via my local IMAP server).

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Ingo Klöcker

2006-04-22 23:41:47 UTC

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to
"Import" being a "File" menu action, even though technically
from a coding perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long
time ago, so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both.
Under what conditions can you actually use it?

Never met that problem. Could it be some missing kde packages?

Importing mail is handled by an application called kmailcvt. It's quite
possible that some distributions have a separate package for kmailcvt.

Regards,
Ingo

Derek Broughton

2006-04-23 16:03:47 UTC

Post by Ingo KlÃ¶cker

Post by Aaron J. Seigo
yes, it was moved out of Tools after a usability review, due to
"Import" being a "File" menu action, even though technically
from a coding perspective it's an external Tool. =)

1.9.1 seems to have it in both. I first met it in Tools, a long
time ago, so I never looked anywhere else

OK, yes, I _do_ have it in both. And it's greyed out in both.
Under what conditions can you actually use it?

Never met that problem. Could it be some missing kde packages?

Importing mail is handled by an application called kmailcvt. It's quite
possible that some distributions have a separate package for kmailcvt.

Thanks, Ingo. It's Ubuntu, and it does indeed have kmailcvt as a separate
package (and I haven't got kmailcvt installed).

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Júlio Maranhão

2006-04-12 22:57:38 UTC

Your help has been invaluable. Actually I haven't neither options in my
KMail because I am using KUbuntu, which doesn't install every KDE app
component. So I "aptitude install kde" and there is it in File menu. :-)

Unfortunatelly, the migration from Thunderbird was not successful. The
wizard freezed somewhere along the task. Ok... I can live with old mail in
TB.

Cheers and thank you helping me.

Júlio Maranhão

P.S.: I'm using KDE 3.5.2 and corresponding Kontact bundle.

Marc Deop i Argemí

2006-04-12 23:20:48 UTC

Post by JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
Your help has been invaluable. Actually I haven't neither options in my
KMail because I am using KUbuntu, which doesn't install every KDE app
component. So I "aptitude install kde" and there is it in File menu. :-)
Unfortunatelly, the migration from Thunderbird was not successful. The
wizard freezed somewhere along the task. Ok... I can live with old mail in
TB.
Cheers and thank you helping me.
JÃºlio MaranhÃ£o
P.S.: I'm using KDE 3.5.2 and corresponding Kontact bundle.

I remember I had to use a script to move my thunderbird mail to kontact. Seach
a little bit more and I hope you'll solve your problem!!

Marc

Marc Deop i Argemí

2006-04-12 23:26:15 UTC

Sorry for writing twice :(

Have you tried to import your mails as mbox files? Thunderbird should use that
format, and Kmail will be able to import the mails. It is a bit more dificult
and needs more work, but probably will work!!!

Marc

Júlio Maranhão

2006-04-13 00:08:07 UTC