importing messages from Thunderbird to Windows Live Mail / Windows Mail

[jimyafai]

OK I have been at this for over 4 hours and I am getting nowhere . Can any one of you (more knowledgeable) guys or gals PLEASE tell me how I can move my messages over from Thunderbird to Windows Live Mail or even Windows Mail.

Why, I hear you ask, T-Bird is a great email program, yes it is but I need to port over to Windows Live (mail, blog uploader et al) so any ideas.

Thanks in advance for the flood, no avalanch of response's

[jimyafai]

LMAO, well just after I posted I found the answer. ImportExportTools (MboxImport enhanced) at http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html adds a export function to T-bird.

[jimyafai]

nope, it did not work, back to the drawing board . SO if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Thanks

[glc]

Import your Thunderbird folders into Eudora. I would download an older version.

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Go to your Thunderbird Profile folder.

Get the Thunderbird mail files, the ones which have no filename extension (for instance "Inbox"), copy them to a new location, and then rename them to have an mbx extension: "Inbox" should be "Inbox.mbx".

NB Please ensure that the NEW mbx files do NOT match the names of existing Eudora mailbox files! Elsewise, you will cause complications for yourself.

Then let Eudora have the new .mbx-files. To do this....firstly, make sure Eudora is closed and NOT running.

Find Eudora's Data folder (on a default install on Windows it is at C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Qualcomm\Eudora), and copy the newly renamed ThunderBird mail [MBX] files to that folder.

Now, open Eudora, and access all the folders you just copied. This makes Eudora create the .toc index files

Et voila, the new mailboxes should appear in Eudora.

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Outlook Express can import directly from Eudora, so I'd assume Windows Mail can too. This is an old trick - no matter what program you use, if you can get it into Eudora, it can almost always be brought into something else. That's because all messages in Eudora are stored as plain text within the .mbx files.

[jimyafai]

thanks all moved and working nicely