Tuna's Command-Line Migration Adventure Episode 3: E-Mail!

[Stephen]

Honestly useing imap then just copy the messages toThe imap folder is
the easiest way I can think of

Just turn off the pop first if you want the same acct

On 2/8/09, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
>
> Much of your issues with Thunderbird might be resolved by switching to an
> updated version using IMAP (rather than Pop3/SMTP)?  If you just want to use
> Vim while also being able to grep from your mail boxes, Mutt is for you.  It
> has some other capabilities including complex filtering and macros, but it
> has to be configured and while it "sucks the least" it's far from trivial
> for the average user.  The Mutt limitations from my memory include the
> mailbox view, but a patch exists for MuttFolderlist.
>
> You can still access HTML email from gmail.com; you will use IMAP/mutt via
> command line and have to ability to get your local systems mail as well.
> You can also configure sendmail with Mutt.  Community developed macros make
> Mutt very powerful for the competent monkey.For safety, during migration you
> can always create another Gmail account and arrange and forward your mail
> into it via new filter after you setup/clone old filters?  Slerp over
> everything and if you muck things up you still have the mail.  The only
> issues with migratiion of old mail spools can be date/time delivery flags if
> you take precautions, however migration tools (below) have options for
> delivery flags.Migration tools include Gmail Loader and MailRedirect
> Thunderbird
>
>
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>> Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 05:29:42 -0700
>> From: tuna at supertunaman.com
>> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>> Subject: Tuna's Command-Line Migration Adventure Episode 3: E-Mail!
>>
>> I want to switch to mutt. I really do. However, I am currently using
>> Thunderbird, which I configured to download messages and delete them
>> from the POP server. So it would be kind of inconvenient for me right
>> now, as I don't want to lose the over 9000 messages I have in my
>> Thunderbird inbox.
>>
>> Is there a way I could back up all these messages in a mutt-compatible
>> format? Or maybe I could use IMAP to... do something?
>>
>> Bonus round: I have a very well-calibrated spam filter on Thunderbird,
>> is there a way to back that up as well and use it with mutt?
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