Where are my imported mail messages?
I just installed Thunderbird, linked it to my primary email account (ok!) and then tried to import one year's worth of email messages exported from my Apple Mail client as .mbox folders with an underlying folder structure (1 per month). Thunderbird went away for about 2 hours "downloading" and importing ( ... looking good!), but at the end my "Local Folder: Apple Mail Import" still shows no messages. Where are they and how can I access them in the Thunderbolt client?
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Did you use Thunderbird's native import feature or the add-on ImportExportTools? The native feature needs much improvement! If you have exported messages from a Apple Mail folder in thee mbox format you can manually import the mbox file via drag & drop into Local Folders in the Thunderbird profile folder. See also https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1483219
Modified by Mapenzi
Drag& drop does not work for me - the folder just floats back to the Finder window. I installed the ImportExportTools extension. To be honest, I am confused about what is what - the native Import vs the I-E-T-Extension. I think I have tried both with always the same result - I can see the imported folder structure (1 folder per month ...) in the Local Folders section, but no messages. Then I created a mbox zip file - 1.94 GB (just under the limit) and the same thing happened ... Then I used the I-E-T-Extension Folder Context menu to import "All EML Messages from a Directory + Subdirectories" - this replicates the Apple Mail subfolder structure in the .../V10 folder - not very useful, but at least the messages are there, "All EML Messages from a Directory" or "Individual Messages" just report 0 files imported instantly. Repeating the same process on 2 additional years' worth of messages lead to the same result that I described in the original question - importing happens (Finder reports 2 lots of 10,000+ items being added to the Profiles folderstructure, but the disk space used only creeps up minimally) - the folder structure in the mbox files gets imported but the messages don't. So, I have now imported 3 years worth of Apple Mail .mbox export folders into the Local Folders of Thunderbird. 2 of these years' messages I can see and on the other 2 ( = the same year repeated twice into a different local folder) there are just the Apple Mail folders visible, but no messages. ???? I am thoroughly confused !!! Eventually the process hangs with 174 of 12246 EML files imported, none nof them visible. Is there a way that I can make all messages in a folder tree "Unread", which would make them easier to spot in the sidebar?
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