Usage of Thunderbird Export unclear

[nicnab]

Calling "help utils export-to-thunderbird" does not work. I'm unsure about the command line parameters necessary - in addition to the email account.

(Other than that imap-backup is very handy and seems to work well - thank you!)

[joeyates]

Hi @nicnab

As an initial answer, to get help, use this command:

imap-backup utils help export-to-thunderbird

It's a bit weird, I know, but help has to be the penultimate part of the command

[nicnab]

Great, thanks for the quick answer! This is a little unclear in the documentation.

[joeyates]

@nicnab I've released version 9.3.1 which should do what users expect.

Now, this

imap-backup help utils export-to-thunderbird

works like the default

imap-backup utils help export-to-thunderbird

and shows the help for the subcommand method.

[michaldejmek]

@joeyates or @nicnab - I run the command "imap-backup utils export-to-thunderbird" and get the information "Skipping export of 'Trash' as 'imap-backup/xxxx@xxxx/Trash' exists." (skipping export of 'Trash' as 'imap-backup/xxxx@xxxx' exists). No such folder exists backup went OK.

No folder is created, even a system scan didn't help.

[Weiming-Hu]

I'm going through the same confusion.

[joeyates]

@michaldejmek and @Weiming-Hu

Please see #161 for some more info on this.

[Weiming-Hu]

Hi @joeyates, thank you very much for your reply.

After upgrading to 10.0.1 and

1. Set up my first Thunderbird account
2. Run the export account,

I can see that the exported folders are correctly shown.

I still need to set the correct local folder in Thunderbird before I can actually see these mails. But this is just a simple setting in Thunderbird.

Much appreciated for the help and awesome tool!