1184495 - Import backed up Thunderbird mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63389

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

[John K]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.134 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

There is still NO import function for older thunderbird mail! 


Actual results:

Nothing!


Expected results:

(Make it like this! http://en.flossmanuals.net/thunderbird/migrating/)
so i can select bij option 2 Mail: Thunderbird mail
option 3 : IMPORT old thunderbird email ( from backup).

Comment 1

[Ton [:Tonnes]]

Just a thought: if there is no Export option for TB mail, it might be a reason not to implement an Import option for it either. Hence I’d plead for both of them, especially now the MozBackup add-on is no longer supported or even considered to be unreliable.

Until then, one should rely on copying entire TB profiles as explained in https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiles-tb and https://support.mozilla.org/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer.

Comment 2

[John K]

Why there is no option to copy the backups to local maps?

Now i copy the content of the backup via Extra - accounts settings - local maps to a temporary map and change it back to standard settings.

But this is a devious solution.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

longstanding request.