342990 - Migrate locally stored IMAP-mailboxes from Windows to Mac doesn't (easily) work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Migration, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5

I have some mailboxes ("local mirrors" of an IMAP-account I no longer have access to) in a Windows-TB profile stored in

.../Profiles/(String)/ImapMail/AccountName/

E.g., INBOX, a subfolder called Mailing lists etc.

Now I want to imort these folder into Mac Thunderbird but just moving the mailboxes (and removing the .msf-files) does not work. Mac TB does not recognize the files.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy a mailbox file from WinTB's ImapMail-folder in your profile folder to ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/(string - I hate those f*cking random strings - what kind of prodigy invented them?)/Mail/Local Folders
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
TB might list the mailbox in its mailbox pane (if you copy a folder only top level mailboxes are listed) but selecting the folder does not display any mails in the mail pane.

Expected Results:  
The mail should be imported.

I am working around this by running WinTB in VPC, moving the mail to another IMAP-server I have account on and then logging into that server with MacTB and moving back the mail there. A less than ideal solution.

Comment 1

[Nikolay Shopik]

still having an issue with latest TB?

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per last comment due to lack of response to question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this comment with your reasons why.