Exporting thunderbird mailbox to IMAP server. (-: SOLVED :-)

sliwowitz · Last edited by sliwowitz on Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:27 am; edited 1 time in total

I want to setup an IMAP server to handle all my mail with a lot of different passwords to customers' websites and such other informations I regullary need when I'm not home and can't check local mail which I store in thunderbird. I thought an IMAP server would be a good choice, but I would need to export my current local thunderbird mailbox contents (a lot of messages, about 1.5GB) somehow into that IMAP server. Is that possible? If there's no suitable tool made, would it be difficult to write one? (ie. are there any imap servers which store the messages in a conveniently simple (text-based) format so it would be possible to write a script to convert tb's text-format inbox into the server's format?)

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

Why not make a new profile, which connects to your imap server and than copy the emails with thunderbird itself?
Just drag und drop should work.

sliwowitz · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:

WOW! A simple working drag and drop solution

How come I didn't think of something like this in the first place. I was in fact preparing to create a kind of script... Is that so unusual to see something like this working in the linux world, or did I finally become a real programming-degenerated geek?

elgato319 · Guru Joined: 15 Sep 2005 Posts: 546

i´m regularly working with different imap servers within thunderbird
and be able to drag and drop mail from one account to the other is a really neat feature

very glad they coded this

sliwowitz · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:23 pm Post subject:

Yes, this is imho exactly the kind of software desing approach we (the open source software community) need to fix ubuntu bug #1