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Trying out Thunderbird for new mac, but it won't properly import my mac Mail mailboxes from my older mac

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Don White
Don White
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I'm trying to see whether Thunderbird may work for me.

Situation: I've been using a 2012 mac mini, now upgrading to a M1 mac mini.

I have used the mac's "MAIL" program for over a decade. Some of its folders are pretty large.

For reasons not important here, I can't use the apple "migration assistant", and have tried to migrate the folders to the now-current Mail program... and they utterly fail.

Thus, since I liked the look of Thunderbird, I figured I'd see if IT could import the mailboxes. Short answer, not well enough.

I've read up on it, tried various ways, added the import/export extention; of course the program will NOT import mailboxes directly from mac Mail despite claiming to... a known flaw... but it will also not import the MBOX files and then use them.

It does seem to import the whole file, in that if I check the resources for thunderbird in the user file, I see that one test mailbox has indeed kept the full 2.15gb capacity... but rather than showing the roughly 37,000 emails in that file, it only shows about 6,000. I've tried it multiple times, and have gotten different file totals between 5100 and 6300 total.

Any workaround, or is Thunderbird not for me?

Thanks for any advice.

DJ

I'm trying to see whether Thunderbird may work for me. Situation: I've been using a 2012 mac mini, now upgrading to a M1 mac mini. I have used the mac's "MAIL" program for over a decade. Some of its folders are pretty large. For reasons not important here, I can't use the apple "migration assistant", and have tried to migrate the folders to the now-current Mail program... and they utterly fail. Thus, since I liked the look of Thunderbird, I figured I'd see if IT could import the mailboxes. Short answer, not well enough. I've read up on it, tried various ways, added the import/export extention; of course the program will NOT import mailboxes directly from mac Mail despite claiming to... a known flaw... but it will also not import the MBOX files and then use them. It does seem to import the whole file, in that if I check the resources for thunderbird in the user file, I see that one test mailbox has indeed kept the full 2.15gb capacity... but rather than showing the roughly 37,000 emails in that file, it only shows about 6,000. I've tried it multiple times, and have gotten different file totals between 5100 and 6300 total. Any workaround, or is Thunderbird not for me? Thanks for any advice. DJ

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Don White
Don White Fragesteller
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To be clear, the new mac isn't even involved in this yet; I installed Thunderbird on the same machine I'm migrating from to see if it would do a clean migrate on the same machine. Limiting variables. It wouldn't. Using the most-current mac version as of 3/9/24

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PDP8
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These challenges, reported over the last decade, have kept me from switching from Apple Mail to Thunderbird. But I keep updating the Thunderbird version I have thinking the NEXT RELEASE would solve this problem.

I have been using apple mail since the '90s. I loved Eudora and saw TB as the evolutionary successor, but went down the Apple path when it was deprecated.

Has the Thunderbird team addressed this anywhere, even just to comment (as opposed to supply a real solution!)??

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