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* Open Mail.app and select "File Import", choose "Other" and navigate to the desktop and click "Choose". | * Open Mail.app and select "File Import", choose "Other" and navigate to the desktop and click "Choose". | ||
* Your mailbox(es) should appear in the import window and will import into Mail.app. | * Your mailbox(es) should appear in the import window and will import into Mail.app. | ||
If the above procedure doesn't work, see the [[Export mail into Outlook (Express) or Apple Mail]] article. | |||
===See also=== | |||
* [[Importing and exporting your mail]] |
Revision as of 13:53, 4 April 2005
No formal tool exists to export your Thunderbird mail to Mail.app on Mac OS X. However, Thunderbird users may have a need to do this for one reason or another. Try the following:
- Navigate to ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/youruserprofile/Mail/Local Folders/
- Identify mailboxes you seek to use in Mail.app.
- Each mailbox has three pieces to it - i.e. "inbox.sbd", "inbox.msf" and "inbox" with no extension.
- Take the file with no extension, hold down the option key (so it also stays in the folder) and drag it to the desktop.
- Rename with ".mbox" as file extension, for example "inbox" becomes "inbox.mbox".
- Open Mail.app and select "File Import", choose "Other" and navigate to the desktop and click "Choose".
- Your mailbox(es) should appear in the import window and will import into Mail.app.
If the above procedure doesn't work, see the Export mail into Outlook (Express) or Apple Mail article.