Importing Thunderbird filters to Mail?

How can I import my Thunderbird filters into apple mail rules?

To the best of my knowledge, there's no way to import rules into Mail from any other mail program. The structure and options for filters/rules are usually completely different from one mail application to another.

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    all of them inside mail.
    Can you help me?
    Bye
    David

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  • Problems importing Thunderbird Mailbox into Mail

    I am having problems importing my Thunderbird mailboxes into Mail. I won't go into the many problems and issues I had to solve (but there were many) but would ask if anyone can help me solve the one I still have.
    In Mail I used the Import Mailboxes command, located the Thunderbird profile in my Home directory and imported it. I may have done this some time ago, but in any case, when I decided to start using Mail as my main email client this week I only had emails up until 6th November 2008.
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    Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
    Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
    Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
    ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
    Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
              Go ▹ Go to Folder
    from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V, then press return.
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  • Import Thunderbird Mails to Apple Mail

    Sorry for putting this topic once again to the list - but all the Discusssions I found in the www didn´t help at all. My problem ist: I cant import all emails from Thunderbird to Mac Mail - and I tired both ways: export mbox files and then import them - and as well directly import thunderbird profiles by Mail. In the end, there where many Emails missing. In one Folder, there have been 2500 Mails - 480 of them made it.... :-(
    Most of the discussions that I found let to an app called Eudora Mailbox CLeaner. Matter of fact: no Link was working, because it led to "Mobile Me" Accounts, that aint exisitng anymore or have been changed to "iCloud". Searching the www. brought me the information, that this Software wount be working on Macs with Lion OS.
    So, to make a long sentence short: does anyboy have a working solution for Importing all Mails from Thunderbird to Mail?
    It´ll be great!!!!

    Hi Shootist,
    you may ask - but the answer is allready given in my first post:
    1st: I used TB for years now, on WIN, UBUNTU and the last 3 or 4 Years on MAC as well.
    And as I wrote on my second post in here:
    2nd: because TB has many features NOT that would be essential for working with MAC, iPhone, iPad etc. like it is thought. It starts by Adressbook Sync, continues on not automatical working sync of Lightning with iCal and goes on with many other issues like DL all mails another time, when the HDD is full once.
    I know, that TB has some features, that are hard to miss afterwards. Once again: I used it for years now and I loved it. But its no more covering all aspects of what I need - privately and for business usage.
    I would be soooooo happy, if anybody would post an answer and not again another question, why not using TB instead of Mail.... ;-)

  • Importing Thunderbird w/ Penelope

    I"m attempting to import a Thunderbird Mailboxes into Mail. I am also using Penelope with Thunderbird. When it imports a folder, it fails to include any Thunderbird messages subsequent
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  • How can i import my sent e-mails from before i started using thunderbird so that they can all be viewed in thunderbird?

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    [http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/support/]
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  • How do I import a Thunderbird inbox using Mail.app?

    Hi all:)
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    I then found this article (http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050402143519725) on Mac OS X Hints, but even following its instructions, I couldn't work it out (Mail kept giving me the same error).
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    It isn’t clear what the problem really is with the information you’ve provided — what does “Mail insists that those are not compatible .mbox files” mean?
    Anyway, you’d get better results using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion. Eudora Mailbox Cleaner requires rebuilding the imported mailboxes in Mail afterwards, but instead of rebuilding them one by one, you can re-create the entire index as follows:
    1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
    2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
    3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
    4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
    Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

  • How can I transfer all my files from Mavericks Thunderbird to Mavericks Mail

    How can I transfer all my files from Mavericks Thunderbird to Mavericks Mail?
    Bonjour,
    C'est ma première intervention aussi je ne sais pas si je peux m'exprimer en français.
    Je tente!
    Lors du passage à Maveicks, j'ai basculé sur Thunderbird car je ne souhaitais pas utiliser POP mais Mail ne le permettait pas (du moins je n'ai pas réussi)
    Aujourd'hui, je souhaite revenir sur Mail et, pour celà, je dois rapatrier toutes mes données de messagerie depuis Thunderbird.
    J'utilise Imap et, pour gérer ma messagerie, j'ai créé des boîtes aux lettres dans Local Folsders
    Le passage par Eudora ne fonctionne pas avec Mavericks.
    L'import de boîtes aux lettres depuis Local Folders de Thunderbird (via le menu Fichier) ne permet de transférer qu'un seul courier par boîte aux lettres de Local Folders. Et c'est ce qui m'empêche de passer à Mail.
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  • Can't import mbox file into Mail anymore

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    I've found other threads referring to this and some say the solution is to pick the "Mail from Mac OSX" data type from the import list, the problem is, this is not an option for me!
    If anyone can help I would appreciate it, this is really frustrating...

    We have users who have been importing collections of old pine and alpine messages who are having problems since switching to SL.
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  • Issues importing messages from live mail

    I am having problems importing messages from my WIndows Live Mail to my Thunderbird. The instructions say go to "Tools ImportExport | Import all messages from a directory | Also from its subdirectories." However in my Thunderbird l have tools, import and then it takes me to a wizard which says "This wizard will help import messages....." and when l select 'mail' as the type l wish to import it asks for a type of mail l want to import. Windows Live Mail is not in the list. Do you have any instructions or advice?

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    http://chrisramsden.vfast.co.uk/3_How_to_install_Add-ons_in_Thunderbird.html
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  • How do I move from Mozilla Thunderbird to Apple Mail for email??

    Hi,
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    If anyone is familiar with how to set up Mail from Thunderbird, please advise. Also, could you please be specific because I am new to MacIntosh. I used PC's for years until I got tired of Microsoft.
    Thanks in advance,
    relaxed

    See if this will help. It's from http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050402143519725
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    Rename this copy with .mbox as the file extension. For example, inbox becomes inbox.mbox.
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  • Importing from Entourage to Mail Question

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    Does anybody have any suggestions on how easily to achieve this end result?
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    I haven't got a direct answer for you but I had similar experiences which may help you. I found the Mail import to be pretty ineffective and unable to cope with large mailboxes.
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