switching from gnus to thunderbird

switching from gnus to thunderbird

[heddy Boubaker]

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

-- 

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Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[Jørn Helge B. Dahl]

* heddy Boubaker <boubaker@tls.cena.fr>
> 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 :)

I'm in the same situation.  Anybody having tips on how to gnusify
Thunderbird?

Oh the other hand, I find the labels in Thunderbird quite useful. Ways
to achieve the same thing in Gnus?

-- 
Jørn Helge B. Dahl

Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[CHENG Gao]

*On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:03:49 +0200
* heddy Boubaker <boubaker@tls.cena.fr> 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. 

Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[Seweryn Kokot]

heddy Boubaker <boubaker@tls.cena.fr> writes:
> hi
>
> I *have to* switch to thunderbird for mails, but I would like to keep my
> ...

I'm just curious, what forces you to switch to TB?

regards,
Seweryn Kokot

Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, May 09 2007, Jørn Helge B. Dahl wrote:

> Anybody having tips on how to gnusify Thunderbird?

OT.  Please ask in a Thunderbird group.  :-)

> Oh the other hand, I find the labels in Thunderbird quite useful. Ways
> to achieve the same thing in Gnus?

http://search.gmane.org/?query=Gnus%20label%20Thunderbird&group=emacs.gnus.*
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61856/focus=61857

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Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[Reiner Steib]

On Wed, May 09 2007, CHENG Gao wrote:

> For nnml groups, "cat * > mboxname" should work.

Nope.

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Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[CHENG Gao]

*On Wed, 09 May 2007 19:56:59 +0200
* Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> climbed out of the dark hell and cried out:

> On Wed, May 09 2007, CHENG Gao wrote:
>
>> For nnml groups, "cat * > mboxname" should work.
>
> Nope.

I vaguely rememer I did this long time ago. I must be wrong. Anyway
choose all emails and copy to a nnmailbox group works.

Re: switching from gnus to thunderbird

[Jørn Helge B. Dahl]

* Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
> On Wed, May 09 2007, Jørn Helge B. Dahl wrote:
>
>> Anybody having tips on how to gnusify Thunderbird?
>
> OT.  Please ask in a Thunderbird group.  :-)

Point taken...

>> Oh the other hand, I find the labels in Thunderbird quite useful. Ways
>> to achieve the same thing in Gnus?
>
> http://search.gmane.org/?query=Gnus%20label%20Thunderbird&group=emacs.gnus.*
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61856/focus=61857

Thanks for the info, but it seems this is not implemented for nnimap
yet?

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Jørn Helge B. Dahl

Adding labels to messages (was: switching from gnus to thunderbird)

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, May 10 2007, Jørn Helge B. Dahl wrote:

> * Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
>> On Wed, May 09 2007, Jørn Helge B. Dahl wrote:
>>> Oh the other hand, I find the labels in Thunderbird quite useful. Ways
>>> to achieve the same thing in Gnus?
>>
>> http://search.gmane.org/?query=Gnus%20label%20Thunderbird&group=emacs.gnus.*
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61856/focus=61857
>
> Thanks for the info, but it seems this is not implemented for nnimap
> yet?

I didn't implement adding labels at all.  Uwe Brauer wrote that he
adds the X-Gnus-Label headers by editing the nnml/nnfolder articles.
It would not be too difficult to implement a function to do this for
back ends that support article editing.

But the idea of using user-defined flags sounds even more nice:
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/59998/focus=60035>.
Maybe you can motivate Simon or Ted to implement it.

This should be discussed on ding (Mail-Followup-To set).

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