Comments on: New Program: Merge Thunderbird / Evolution style (mbox) folders

By: Bitelia Responde: Sincronizar Thunderbird | Bitelia

Bitelia Responde: Sincronizar Thunderbird | Bitelia — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 11:03:17 +0000

[...] conviene que generes un perfil adicional para resguardarlos o puedes intentar combinarlos con Mboxmerge, creando antes una copia de [...]

By: Syncing / merging Thunderbird mailbox files | Dominique Stender

Syncing / merging Thunderbird mailbox files | Dominique Stender — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:19:16 +0000

[...] With a bit of research I found that I was not the only person with this problem and even better I found the blog by Paul Betts containing an article "Merge Thunderbird / Evolution style (mbox) folders". [...]

By: Dominique Stender

Dominique Stender — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:55:11 +0000

mboxmerge just made my day after using a different comp for seven months. Got all my Sent folders synced without a single issue.

Great work Paul!
Dominique

By: Akthtar

Akthtar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:52:11 +0000

My situation is this:
I installed thunderbird on my linux system and it worked fine for few months but after that I had to change my system. And on new system i again configured thundered but what strange thing I noticed it was not downloading all the previous mails aand also those mails were not on my yahoo account.Now I m in trouble !!!!!!!
Can you suggest any means that I can merge .thunderbird folder of previous system and my new system in a synchronised way……..

Please help me!!!
I am totally lost because older mails are very important,.
If anyone has suggestions please help me

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:05:18 +0000

@Dallis – afaik, the msf files are just indexes, so as long as the Mbox file itself is safe, everything should be fine. I don’t guarantee it though, as I don’t really use Thunderbird

By: Dallis Brockway

Dallis Brockway — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:57:56 +0000

Should we be worried about these .msf files in Thunderbird? This program seems to work, which is a good thing since I want to merge my accounts from separate Linux distros I have installed.

By: Lars Greninger

Lars Greninger — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 15:03:02 +0000

Whoops. My first defect example and fix got swallowed by the blog s/w.

The defect was that header line keywords are case-insensitive but you require them to start with a capital. I had a message that used “date”, etc. Easily fixed by tweaking the regexps to accept, for example, /^[D|d]date/ instead of /^Date/.

By: Lars Greninger

Lars Greninger — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:58:51 +0000

I tried your programs on a Thunderbird mailbox folder where my wife and I have collected different subsets of the total set of messages.

I found that this folder exposes two problems in your code:

1. One message in this mailbox contains the following header lines:

>>>>>>>> Start lines <<<<<<<>>>>>>> End lines <<<<<<<>>>>>>> Start lines <<<<<<<<
—– Forwarded by Lars Greninger/Austin/IBM on 02/13/2009 10:04 PM —–

From:
Good Friend
To:
Lars Greninger/Austin/IBM@IBMUS
Date:
02/13/2009 06:36 PM
Subject:
Re: IBM neutron bomb
>>>>>>>> End lines <<<<<<<<

No idea where the extra EOLs came from (Lotus Notes probably), but these data lines caused an exception when your code saw the “Date:\n” data line as a new header line.

This exception was due to your not chomp!-ing the string ‘s’ before testing for a zero length so all body lines were processed as header lines.

Fixing these two problem areas gave me an excellent reason to learn a little Ruby. Neat language! And very useful programs!

By: Paul Betts

Paul Betts — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:02:14 +0000

@oliver – No clue, but it shouldn’t take *too* long to do. Give it a try

By: oliver

oliver — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:20:35 +0000

Say, how long does you script take to merge 2 mailboxes, each having about 3000 mails with about 90% of them duplicates?