MS unwanted updates tonight...

Mayayana wrote:
"Frank Slootweg" wrote

| Not only clunky, but completely fsck-ed up, unless your imported input
| was a straight-and-clean *file* (not mail folder) tree structure. TB's
| tools don't have a clue how OE's/WM's mail storage is/can_be organized
| and are quite happy to fsck it up. But heh, OE/WM was only the most used
| MUA, so why would TB bother to accomodate its users!?
|

Yes. It almost seems like they intended to be gruff
with OE refugees, doesn't it? A bit of Open Source
smugness. There was no excuse for not importing
OE accounts as normal TB accounts.

Indeed, very smug and inexuseable. Not to mention you have to jump
through hoops to get a decent quoting method and even then, one
configuration does not work for both text/plain and text/html.

You might want to try undbx if you haven't already
got rid of your DBX files. I think that's what I'd do if I
switched: Just convert the email to files and import
those in a way that TB can understand.

My migration went from OE to WM to TB, so I didn't have any OE DBX
files going to TB.

But - with the ImportExportTools TB extension - the import of the
email messages was not too much of a problem (after some test imports),
but - as I mentioned - the resulting mail folder (non-)'organization'
was/in a mess.

Also, I don't know whether this might be useful:

https://www.jsware.net/jsware/scrfiles.php5#ebase

I wrote it recently for my own purposes. It's a database
program that uses Windows Installer MSI files (very
fast) to store several years worth of my old email for
easy search. It has to be set up by loading all relevant
email, but once set up it's easy to use. And there's
a script included to convert a TB email storage file to
separate .EML files.

There's a screenshot he
https://www.jsware.net/jsware/linkpics/ebase.gif

Thanks for the pointers.

AFAIK (but not tested), the ImportExportTools TB extension can export
to mbox-format mail folders and to individual .eml files (which are
essentially also mbox-format).

mbox format is a de facto (de jure?) standard format, so unless TB
stops working, I can always migrate to another MUA.