Transferring Thunderbird mail into Evolution
November 21, 2007 | In Development |I’m using Novell’s Evolution 2.12 on the new machine. It provides mail, calendar, tasks etc. and resembles Microsoft’s Outlook.
Transferring my email from Windows based Thunderbird to Evolution is a slightly more difficult task than the Firefox bookmarks. There is no export function in Thunderbird, which is rather poor in my opinion, so actually getting the email out into a form that can be read by Evolution is a bit more roundabout.
I used a Thunderbird Add-on called SmartSave. This allows you to export your email to plain text. It is a bit time consuming if you have lots of mail as each message is saved to a separate file, but it does maintain your folder structure for you.
Finally, to import into Evolution you can simply drag and drop the messages into the message list window. You will need to recreate the folder structure by hand.