Exporting Email From Thunderbird

When I made the full time transition from Windows to Linux, I selected Thunderbird as my email again, and imported all my Outlook Express mailboxes (and I have a lot of them) into Thunderbird. Thunderbird is a good mail agent, but I am getting worried about being locked into one mail agent again, much as I was with Windows.
Are there any programs out there that can EXPORT email from Thunderbird into some neutral format like HTML or XML or some such?
Ultimately, I would like to start using Sylpheed, but I can't see any way to get my email from Thunderbird to Sylpheed.
Any ideas anyone?

The beauty of this method is that you do it all from the client itself. You would launch thunderbird as you normally do and set up a second account. That second account should be an IMAP server. Which IMAP server you use and where it is located is up to you. If you have an ISP that provides IMAP mail that would be easiest otherwise you could set up your own somewhere.
(on a side note, since I am not an IMAP expert I would recommend downloading a trial version of Communigate Pro from stalker.com since it will install and work quickly for your purposes)
Once you have both accounts active and working in the client just drag the emails from the folder on one account to a folder on the other. Thunderbird will automatically transfer the mails to the other server for you.
I should also point out that this isn't a thunderbird specific feature -- even outlook express will do this.
Good luck!

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