In the new window, open up the file browser, and make your way to /home/user/.mozilla-thunderbird/fault/Mail/. Click Forward, choose Import a single file, click forward again.

So, now, let’s import our Thunderbird Inbox to Evolution. Inbox.msf is a file containing a summary of your emails for better performance.įinally, Inbox file contains your mails in a mbox format!!! This is the file you want to import in Evolution. Inbox.sdb is a directory containing all subdirectories and their messages that you might have create under Inbox folder in thunderbird. If you ‘ls’ this directory, you will find a collection of files and directory. In Thunderbird go to Edit->Account Settings… and select the account you want to import the mails from, then select the sub-entry Server Settings and look for the Local Directory text field. Now, we know that we can easily import mails from thunderbird, the only thing left, is to find out where those emails files are… The location can be found through the account properties page. mbox format is suported out of the box by Evolution through its import feature. Because of that, importing your old mails to Evolution is not made that easy.īut, luckily enough, Thunderbird uses a standard mail box format: mbox. Unfortunately, Thunderbird does not offer an export option yet. This can usually be easily done by using the Export function from the client you want to move from, and finally import to your new client using the Import function. This Tutorial will explain how one can import mails from Thunderbird to Evolution.Ĭhanging email client can be a risky task, as you usually want to keep your old email just in case you need to refer back to it. The main motivation for this move was the fact that Evolution is by far well more integrated with Gnome Desktop, Beagle… Lately, I wanted to make the move from Thunderbird to Evolution. How-To: Import Thunderbird Emails to Evolution

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