On 14/02/12 12:31, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi again,
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I have a larger junk of e-mails I want to send to another user, in the same structure as created by the old user (and then delete the old account).
It has plenty of subfolders, a nice tree. Thunderbird isn't reliable in copy them all, it stops randomly half-way through, most of the times without showing an error. It leaves directories out, or forgets to put the content in - in general, it's not reliable.
I did not want to spend too much time on it, writing scripts etc.. Do you know a reliable IMAP client that can copy folder structures via IMAP?
Thunderbird uses text files to hold the messages - just tar them up, create the same structure at the other end and untar there. Each folder exists as (eg) Inbox and Inbox.msf, also there are a couple of files like msgFilterRules.dat. Look in ~user/.thunderbird/<somecode>.default/Mail/<mailservername> Subdirectories of a mail folder exist as a folder ending in ".sbd" Have an explore in Mail and its subdirectories and see what is there, reproduce the structure at the destination and copy the data. If it goes wrong, the originals are still there to try again.