Import From Marlin

ludiaribar@mail.bg · February 16th, 2004, 5:37 pm

hi
I want to ask if anyone knows how can I migrate from Marlin to Thunderbird. I tried to export and import
in different ways but it doesn't seem to work at all.

Post by **tanstaafl** » February 16th, 2004, 8:33 pm

I took a look at thier web site but couldn't find anything about how they stored thier email (mbox, mh, maildir or a proprietary format). I suspect they support exporting address books as .CSV or .LDIF files (thats pretty common).

I suggest you send email to info@marlin-mail.com asking what mailbox format they use.

ludiaribar@mail.bg · February 17th, 2004, 9:56 am

10x for the advise.
they export to .msg, .eml and BSDstyle Unix Mailbox but i don't know how to import these in Thunderbird

Post by **tanstaafl** » February 17th, 2004, 7:20 pm

http://wp.netscape.com/eng/mozilla/2.0/ ... ength.html implies the BSD style unix mailbox is not equivalent to mbox, so the best bet seems to be to import the EML files.

1. Run the ruby script eml2mbox which you can get at http://www.broobles.com/eml2mbox/ to create a mbox format mail file. The web site has a pointer to a copy of ruby and detailed instructions.

2. Copy the mbox file to your mail directory in your thunderbird profile. All of your Marlin messages will be in one folder (the mbox file) so you will have to organize them into folders again.

See http://www.holgermetzger.de/pdl.html for a description of whats in/where is a mozilla profile. A thunderbird profile is a subset of it.

ludiaribar@mail.bg · February 17th, 2004, 9:53 pm

Thanks alot, tanstaafl. Happy to see that there are people like you to help newbies like me. Thank's again. See ya.