Import an mbox without an email account?

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Import Export Tools that supports Thunderbird v68-v128

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Import an mbox without an email account? #608

Open clearoak opened 1 month ago

clearoak commented 1 month ago

Hi. This looks like a great extension but I can't really tell! I have installed thunderbird without an email account because I only want to use it to read the messages in a google takeout mbox archive. But I can find no way to access the import function of the add-on unless I have folders, which seems to mean that I have to set up an account. Is there a way around this? Prior to this, I used thunderbird -profilemanager to create a profile where I wanted one, installed the addon, restarted thunderbird.

cleidigh commented 1 month ago

@clearoak Not sure what you were doing in the past, but you can't import into nothing, have to have a folder. I'm assuming you are using Thunderbird v128. It doesn't seem to allow creating an empty profile from the command line anymore.

I just tested the following :

Setup Thunderbird and cancel account creation
Go to addons and install LocalFolders (also mine)
Install ImportExportTools (if not already there)
Go to Account settings
Click Account actions \Add new local folder
Choose name, location etc.
You will now have a local folder account you can import to with right click on folder

@cleidigh

clearoak commented 1 month ago

Thanks cleidigh. I didn't know about the LocalFolders addon. I was able to follow the instructions, got both extensions on, added a folder. However, when I go to the file manager and right click on it, nothing extra has been added to the context menu. I have created the folder on a different disk to the one that thunderbird is installed on; well, all the profile stuff is on that disk too. Is that the problem? Or did I misunderstand the action to take? The file manager is nemo 6.0.2 running on linux mint 21.3 Is there a different way to get the gmail mbox into thunderbird?

cleidigh commented 1 month ago

@clearoak You right click on the folder in Thunderbird and you will see the IETNG icon under which are the import mbox options. @cleidigh

cleidigh commented 1 month ago

@clearoak Did you try this? @cleidigh

clearoak commented 3 weeks ago

Ah, so sorry, I thought I replied. Yes, got it working. I'm afraid I forget how but I basically understood what you were saying. Thank you very much for your help!