Hi Folks, Thank you to all who have replied so far, both on and off list.
I've had a lot of food for thought while I've been sat here, importing folders. Initially, I had problems importing the thunderbird mail in to balsa. It didn't seem like thunderbird could export mail in a format which could be read by balsa. After reading posts on search engines on the subject, potentially renaming files, etc. I ended up in claws. Claws had an import option whereby I could just click on the thunderbird mail box and in came the mails. Initially, my thoughts were to get the mails in to claws and I could then get them in to balsa from there. However, I've had to import each and every folder individually and, after spending all this time importing in to claws, I'm not sure if I have the energy to take the next step and port over to balsa. I've also noted that although claws says that its boxes are mboxes, the emails are stored in individual files; and when I saw that, I wondered whether the port from claws to balsa would be as easy as I hoped. So after spending a lot of time transferring, I'm now a bit dejected and lacking energy, and am completing the transfer from thunderbird to claws. Where did Thunderbird go wrong? Well, the import from Kmail wasn't an easy one either. Kmail 2 had already damaged the mail in the failed upgrade (as seemed to happen to lots of people in late 2011/early 2012) but this corruption happened despite moving mails to new folders in thunderbird and deleting the old ones, but there is a very mild possibility of corruption being ported over somehow in malformed mails. My mind passed to the possibility that the amount of junk that comes in, might have triggered an auto-compact which conflicted with a mail being moved by rules. As my domains get a considerable amount of spam (which are taken care of by the client, rather than the over-zealous server) folders can get large, really fast. This would also roughly coincide with my being on holiday, where two weeks of mails would have built up before I manually sorted through them. So, there are some possibilities for the corruption, but I'll probably never know for sure. I do feel happier with mails stored individually, at least it gives the possibility for the indexes to be re-built. For now, I'm giving claws a chance. I'd like to thank everyone for their input in to my problem. I have very much appreciated what people have had to say. If claws doesn't have the features I need, I might end up in balsa yet! Michelle. _______________________________________________ balsa-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/balsa-list
