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

[Nathan England]

On Sunday 08 February 2009 05:29:42 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?
>
> 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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I would suggest opening a gmail account, enabling imap access, upload all your 
messages to gmail via imap, then configure MUTT to access your gmail via pop or 
imap and download them all and put them where ever you want...

nathan