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Need to migrate thunderbird mail boxes to Spark

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jonathan30
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Hello.

Was forced by employer off of Thunderbird and over to Spark.

Migrated via IMAP which worked okay - but I had a large pile of sent mails in the sent box and the structure did not migrate.

It looks like:

Sent <current sent mail> 

 -->2012
      ---> 201201
      ---> 201202

Etc, so 8 years of sent mail in the sent folder.

How do I get those mails exported/imported? I tried the exportImportTools to pull my old profile into a new account but that did not work. Everything else seems to point to getting things into Thunderbird,.

Thanks!

Hello. Was forced by employer off of Thunderbird and over to Spark. Migrated via IMAP which worked okay - but I had a large pile of sent mails in the sent box and the structure did not migrate. It looks like: Sent <current sent mail> -->2012 ---> 201201 ---> 201202 Etc, so 8 years of sent mail in the sent folder. How do I get those mails exported/imported? I tried the exportImportTools to pull my old profile into a new account but that did not work. Everything else seems to point to getting things into Thunderbird,. Thanks!

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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After a quick look at Spark, I don't think there's any way to import or export mail, or access local mail stores - it serves only to read a cached copy of mail in IMAP accounts. It's as if you used TB with the setting to not keep messages for offline access - headers only are downloaded and message content is downloaded only when a message is opened, and then it is stored in the cache.

https://sparkmailapp.com/help/234-email-storage-and-backups.html

Uploading mail to an IMAP folder is possible, but it has to be done in small batches.

If you find anything that contradicts my assessment, feel free to post in this topic.