Alexandros Gougousoudis | 3 Aug 2012 12:33
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HowTo import Cyrus Mail-Dir into Thunderbird, without Cyrus?

Hi,

one friend got a copy of his maildirectory in Cyrus from the admins of 
his university when he left. They told him, he can import it into 
Thunderbird and use the old mails. How can this be done? Is there a 
converter?

We're using also Cyrus, all emails are single files in 
/var/spool/cyrus/mail/user, I don't know any way how to use these files 
with a mailreader without the serversoftware.  Any hint is welcome

TIA
 Alex

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Marc Patermann | 3 Aug 2012 14:00
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Re: HowTo import Cyrus Mail-Dir into Thunderbird, without Cyrus?

Alexandros,

Alexandros Gougousoudis schrieb (03.08.2012 12:33 Uhr):

> one friend got a copy of his maildirectory in Cyrus from the admins of 
> his university when he left. They told him, he can import it into 
> Thunderbird and use the old mails. How can this be done? Is there a 
> converter?
> 
> We're using also Cyrus, all emails are single files in 
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user, I don't know any way how to use these files 
> with a mailreader without the serversoftware.  Any hint is welcome
You may be better of at a Thunderbird mailing list.
I would experiment with the ImportExportTools extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Marc
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Bron Gondwana | 4 Aug 2012 22:27
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Re: HowTo import Cyrus Mail-Dir into Thunderbird, without Cyrus?

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Alexandros Gougousoudis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> one friend got a copy of his maildirectory in Cyrus from the admins of 
> his university when he left. They told him, he can import it into 
> Thunderbird and use the old mails. How can this be done? Is there a 
> converter?
> 
> We're using also Cyrus, all emails are single files in 
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user, I don't know any way how to use these files 
> with a mailreader without the serversoftware.  Any hint is welcome

If you rename them with .eml on the end, they'll load into just about
anything.  They're just single rfc822 files.

I have actually opened a bug for renaming them to end with .eml in Cyrus.
Annoyingly hard to patch in later though :(

Bron.
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