On 04/15/2013 11:49 AM, Thomas Raschbacher wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm going to have to import ~ 25GB of Thunderbird mails into DBMail.
> what is the best way to do this?
> 
> 1) Just add imap server and start copying over?

Probably the best.

> 2) is there some script maybe? (contrib only has for maildir)

The script in contrib supports more than maildir.

> 3) use a thunderbird extension (like
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/)
> to export to maildir and then use the script?

You can try that, but this will not set meta-data on the messages like
the flags (Seen, Recent, Deleted, LabelX...)

> 
> What seems to be the best way? most important is that nothing is lost,
> so the priority is on that of course. It'd be nice to not having to do
> it manually (there are a lot of folders), but if the rest is considered
> unreliable / someone has encountered problems with it then I guess i'd
> have to do that..





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