From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/8973 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: CHENG Gao Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 23:11:18 +0800 Organization: cyberhut.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178725737 30777 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2007 15:48:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:48:57 +0000 (UTC) To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 09 17:48:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HloPO-0000Tw-Jo for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 17:48:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HloWb-0001Bq-EC for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2007 11:56:21 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.cn99.com!news.yaako.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.94.199.212 Original-X-Trace: news.yaako.com 1178723479 25204 222.94.199.212 (9 May 2007 15:11:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.yaako.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 15:11:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UVkEbrwRik9eAzwtkmkp0gdnixQ= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:79158 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 09 May 2007 11:53:30 -0400 X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:8973 Archived-At: *On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:03:49 +0200 * heddy Boubaker climbed out of the dark hell and cried out: > hi > > I *have to* switch to thunderbird for mails, but I would like to keep my > archives and current mails. Archives are in nnfolder and current mails > in nnml, I have too my adresses in bbdb. Does anyboy know how to do that > please ? (promise I'll continue reading news with gnus :) > > thanks in advance As I know, TB uses mbox. nnfolder is Unix mbox, so it's not problem at all. For nnml groups, "cat * > mboxname" should work. Then you can copy all mboxes to TB mail dir, and restart TB. It can read and list them. For bbdb, maybe you can find something useful from link http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BbdbExporters. TB can import LDIF or CSV. And I have a better solution: stick to Gnus and forget TB :-p Esp. for archiving emails, when some folder has huge emails (in number and disk file size), you'll feel painful.