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

[Chris Gehlker]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 5:29 AM, Tuna wrote:

> 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?

Apparently you can migrate your Thunderbird files to KMail as an  
intermediate step.
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail>

>
>
> 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?

I doubt it.

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