Hi all, sometimes (infrequent) I am using Thunderbird to send e-mail folders from one user to another. At the moment it stops after a while, with this message: The connection was refused when attempting to contact live.mozillamessaging.com. What the hack?? The setup was pristine, accounts are internal ones.. the Thunderbird does not have any messaging configured (AFAIK). Why does Thunderbird want to connect to that server? How do I stop it? Thanks for answers Peter
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
sometimes (infrequent) I am using Thunderbird to send e-mail folders from one user to another.
At the moment it stops after a while, with this message:
The connection was refused when attempting to contact live.mozillamessaging.com.
What the hack?? The setup was pristine, accounts are internal ones.. the Thunderbird does not have any messaging configured (AFAIK).
Why does Thunderbird want to connect to that server?
I don't use Thunderbird but http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/405 was returned by a quick Web search.
Quoting "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>:
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
sometimes (infrequent) I am using Thunderbird to send e-mail folders from one user to another.
At the moment it stops after a while, with this message:
The connection was refused when attempting to contact live.mozillamessaging.com.
I don't use Thunderbird but http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/405 was returned by a quick Web search.
Thanks, that fixed it. Your Google skills are superior to mine;-) Cheers Peter
Hi again, Quoting "Peter Ross" <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de>:
Quoting "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>:
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
sometimes (infrequent) I am using Thunderbird to send e-mail folders from one user to another.
At the moment it stops after a while, with this message:
The connection was refused when attempting to contact live.mozillamessaging.com.
I don't use Thunderbird but http://www.debian-administration.org/users/simonw/weblog/405 was returned by a quick Web search.
Thanks, that fixed it. Your Google skills are superior to mine;-)
while it fixed this problem, the bigger one still exists: 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? Thanks for recommendations Peter
Quoting "Jason White" <jason@jasonjgw.net>:
Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> wrote:
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?
offlineimap is reputed to be good.
Thank you. Looks quite good. I am just be a bit scared and would like to have a dry-run first to see whether it does what I want. (My case isn't the "typical" and I cannot find an exhausting man-page, they are all "HowTo" style only). Some people claim there isn't a dry run.. True? Thanks again Peter
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.
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