Import Mozilla mails into KMail (and vice versa)?

[Guest SuGa]

As I'm not sure what mailclient to use I often switch between kmail and mozilla mail. But is there a way to convert the mailboxes between those two?

[theYinYeti]

I'm not sure at all. Besides, it may not work with nested folders.

Anyway, you should be able to just share your folders between both apps.

Try doing something like that:

cd $HOME

tar czf KMail-backup.tar.gz Mail

tar czf MozMail-backup.tar.gz .mozilla/location/for/mail/files

rm -rf Mail

ln -s .mozilla/location/for/mail/files Mail

In case you do something wrong, you still have your backups.

Just replace ".mozilla/location/for/mail/files" with the real place, for example: ".mozilla/obd03k5j.slt/Mail/Local Folders"

 

Yves.

[Guest SuGa]

thanks. i've looked at some articles about this topic but for my understanding this should only work for the older kmail, not for the versions in the kde3.1 branch as the file structure looks completely different :S but i'll try it :)

 

edit: nope, didn't do the trick :(

[Guest bjc]

Hello SuGa:

I'm also trying two e-mail clients: Mozilla and Sylpheed. There is an easy workaround for your situation. I have Mozilla to not remove mail from the ISP when downloading mail. Sylpheed, on the other hand, is set to remove mail from the ISP once I download with it. So both e-mail clients will fill with all the received mail. Mozilla's filter is set to not accept mail over 100 kb. Why download big ones twice? Sylpheed takes them all, big and small. It works for me while I try to decide.

Forgot to mention: Mozilla must download first.

[paul]

install a local imap server then use fetchmail daemon to get your mail from the ISP and store it in your local imap server

[Guest SuGa]

omg, my workaround will look great ^^ tnx for the idea with the imap server =)

is there perhaps somewhere a short howto for this? i already have fetchmail taking the mails from my pop accounts so i just need a description how to combine it with imap and howto secure imap so that only the owner of the /etc/spool/mail/username file can access his mails :)

 

tnx