Short: Export Mails from Thor to Thunderbird Author: info@ar-kleinert.de Uploader: info ar-kleinert de Type: docs/help Version: 1.0 Architecture: generic While trying to migrate my old email database from Amiga THOR to Mozilla Thunderbird, it turned out that most existing conversion programs had either one of the following disadvantages: - they could not handle THOR .mbx files (multiple .msg in one file) - they could not handle THOR .msg files (one .msg per file) - they could handle them, but only externally received .msg and not sent .msg entries Finally I found a solution. In case anyone has a similar problem, here are the required steps to properly export your existing mails from your THOR mail database and re-import into Mozilla Thunderbird under Windows: Amiga side ---------- 1. reserve some free space (e.g. on VMEM: partition) 2. start Thor in the background (do not enter any BBS) 3. in a Shell, do a "cd THOR:Rexx" 4. execute "rx SaveRange.thor" 5. select the conference you would like to export 6. select "1" as start message and "(max)" as end message 7. select location from 1. as destination (specified sub directories will be ignored) 8. as output naming format select "confname.MsgNr" 9. wait until the export finished 10. create a new folder named "thor-confname" and do a "rename confname.#? thor-confname/" 10. repeat procecure from 4. on for any other conferences on the same or any other BBS 11. transfer the created folders to Windows/Linux using Samba or a RR/ISO CD-R Windows side: ------------- 12. transfer the created folders with .msg files to the target system (e.g. to "c:temp") 13. get the tool "eml2mbx" (Windows) from http://home.arcor.de/luethje/prog/index.htm and unzip the archive to some folder 14. open a Windows shell by execution of "cmd" 15. do a "cd" to the folder of "eml2mbx" 16. reserve some free space again in "c:temp" 17. for each of your Amiga folders, execute the following in the shell: "eml2mbx.exe c:tempthor-confname*.* c:tempconfname.mbx /i /a" 18. wait until the conversion is finished (progress display) and continue from 17. until all folders were processed 19. with the Explorer go to your Thunderbird mail folder, which usually is under C:Dokumente und Einstellungen[user]AnwendungsdatenThunderbirdProfiles[profile].defaultMail which is a hidden folder for each user - one of the existing profiles is yours and should be selected for the import. MAKE SURE THUNDERBIRD IS NOT RUNNING. 20. within your profile folder create directories called "confname.sbd" and empty files called "confname" 21. copy the previously created "confname.mbx" file into the "confname.sbd" folder 22. repeat step 20. for each of the "confname,mbx" files 23. when done, start Thunderbird 24. you will have several new folders called "confname" with the corresponding emails in them 25. now clean up and start sorting/renaming/removing/... -- No warranty whatsover given. Use on your own risk.