Migrating emails from Thunderbird: small IMAP mailbox size

I recently got a MacBook Pro and now I want to move my emails from my former email client on a Windows XP PC, Thunderbird, to Mac Mail on the MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.6.2).
I created the appropriate email account in Mac Mail, this part works fine.
But the size of my IMAP is fairly small, and I used to move my old emails to the Thunderbird local message folders. How do I move everything to my Mac? This is straightforward for the emails that are still on the server, but how do I get both, the ones on the server, and the ones downloaded to Thunderbird to Mac Mail? Do I have to gradually move mails from the local Thunderbird folder to my account, and over to my Mac, and do the whole thing again and again, or is it safe to import the Thunderbird folder to Mac Mail? I would like to avoid double or lost messages.

you can set up thunderbird on the mac first and migrate there. then in Mail go to File menu->import mailboxes. it has an option to import from thunderbird. it might actually be possible to import directly from the copy of your windows thunderbird profile without setting up thunderbird on the mac first.

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