Importing Contacts from OE5 (OS9) to Thunderbird (OSX)
I've just moved to OSX from OS9, where I used Outlook Express 5.02 for mail.
I'm setting up Thunderbird but am unable to import the Address Book and Messages from OE. There is no option in Import for OE and any files in OE Main Identity that can be recognised via Thunderbird's Import fail to come across.
Ideas, please. Thank you.
Michael
Having given up someone suggested a solution which works, albeit tediously. In summary the process for 10.3 (it was suggested 10.4 was different) is:
Import messages into Mail from OE.
Find imported files in Mail's Mailboxes folder. Make a copy and work on that.
In turn control-click each .mbox file and choose 'Show Package Contents'.
From window that opens move the file named mbox to your profile folder in Thunderbird's Profiles folder. (In practice it was simpler to rename each mbox with the name I wanted that box to have before moving it rather than rename it as soon as it was in Profiles.)
Restart Thunderbird.
Check structure against Mail (assuming you worked on a copy) or OE.
Depending on any folder structure you used in OE you need to check exactly what it is you are moving. With hindsight it might have been better to move the mailboxes across in a flat structure then create any folders.
Importing addresses failed again. I was pointed to a free utility called Address Book Exporter which creates a .txt file from Address Book, that was easy to import into Thunderbird but although cards were created all had some/all information missing. I have given up on that!
Michael
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