Thunderbird is a wonderful, amazing power tool and I had high hopes for it when I adopted it. The current beta is available at (installing and starting beta will cause the beta to use a new thunderbird profile, so be aware of ) It specifically has a new importer for Mac. I haven't yet used it, but you might test what recently shipped in beta 97 from Bug 1720042 - Order and logic of import dialogs should be changed to allow selecting the app to import before what to import. Thunderbird is truly wonderful and I love it. I hope this situation can get turned around.
and currently, Thunderbird can't provide that. The people I most want to recommend Thunderbird to need above all else reliable, it-just-works email that they don't have to fight with so they can get their work done. That one of those bugs dates back at least to Thunderbird 78 tells me that even serious workflow-affecting bugs aren't getting fixed, another point against.
Or the four - wait, make that five - crash bugs I found today in Thunderbird 91, which involve critical functionality such as global Search. These folks don't have the time, attention, or skills to deal with serious issues such as having to hand-import Mac Mail mailboxes one at a time. But it's clearly NOT suitable for ordinary people, or busy execs, or busy tech entrepreneurs like my friend. Maybe I can still get it to work for me, a power user. In fact, I am just today recommending to a tech-savvy Mac-using friend that she NOT adopt Thunderbird. This is not exactly laying out the welcome mat for new users wanting to migrate from Mac Mail. Then throws an error message that it found no mailboxes to import. Yet Thunderbird 91 still lists Mac Mail import as an option. ** 11 YEARS LATER, Mac Mail import is STILL broken** in Thunderbird 91.7.0 (the current release version available when I tested today, 27 March 2022). Later copy the imported messages to the genuine TB folders or other sub-folders you will have created. etc to distinguish the import folders and The next imported Messages.mbox file would appear as a sub-folder named somewhat like mbox790,īut you may rename the imported folders to Inbox, Sent, Drafts.
Drag the selected messages and drop them in the Converter window and click Save mbox.Ī file "Messages.mbox" will be created on Desktop.Launch TB and the emlx to mbox Converter.In a finder window go to ~/Library/Mail/POPmyaccount name/Inbox/Messages/ and select ALL messages.
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There is a workaround for manual transfer. The actual mbox for import is _inside_ the directory called folder.mbox (or so I am deducing). It seems that the reason things are broken is because Apple Mail has inserted a new level of directory into its mbox.
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