<div dir="ltr"><div>Just a thought from an amateur:<br><br></div><div>Thunderbird creates files that represent your mail folders and subfolders. They may be a pair of files.<br></div><div>Newer versions of TBird may not do it this way. Those files should be Unix mbox format files which have a special unique header for each message in addition to the rest of the headers.<br></div><div>ZThey are not readable without that header at the top of each message. A file could contain hundreds or thousands of messages.<br><br></div><div>I haven't looked but Claws may store message folders the same way. Maybe you could copy your TBird folder files into the correct location in Claws and it would see them as a normal folder.<br></div><div>Then you could manage them as needed, append, delete, filter, etc. If Claws doesn't do this I would humbly suggest that this feature be added. If you use Linux with Pine or mail as your mail reader and create folders these<br></div><div>folders will be standard Unix mbox format files. You should be able to add them to TBird in the right location or hopefully Cl;aws. This would make it infinitely easier migrating your TBird folders and messages into Claws without<br></div><div>missing or corrupting anything. <br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 6:18 PM Rolf Turner <<a href="mailto:r.turner@auckland.ac.nz">r.turner@auckland.ac.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Thanks to all who responded to my previous questions. (And to those<br>
who may respond to the current lot!!!)<br>
<br>
This mailing list appears to be a good reason, in and of itself, for<br>
switching from Thunderbird to claws-mail. Getting useful information<br>
out of Thunderbird was like pulling hens' teeth! :-)<br>
<br>
I have now got claws mail running, to the extent that I can send and<br>
receive messages (thanks to Paul for help with the send bit).<br>
<br>
I now have a number of questions that I would appreciate some help with.<br>
<br>
(1) Searching through messages. Is it possible to search through<br>
messages (for e.g. a specified "From") in *all* folders, rather than<br>
one folder at a time?<br>
<br>
Since I have a huge number of folders it is tedious to search one<br>
folder at a time. (And I sometimes have no idea where I've put<br>
something! Also slip-ups in drag-and-drop seem to have the unfortunate<br>
effect of moving a message to some random location of which I have no<br>
idea.)<br>
<br>
I suspect that the answer to this question is "No" and I'll just have<br>
to learn to live with it. (I got used to being able to "search<br>
everything" in Thunderbird.)<br>
<br>
(2) Subscribe: Scratch this one! I've figured it out myself!!!<br>
<br>
(3) Plugins: I want to install the "Dillo" plugin. I (successfully?)<br>
installed the Dillo web browser. After a bit of thrashing and Googling<br>
around, I managed to download<br>
<br>
claws-mail-dillo-viewer_3.17.4-1_amd64.deb<br>
<br>
and then did<br>
<br>
sudo dpkg -i *.deb<br>
<br>
However I got the error:<br>
<br>
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of<br>
claws-mail-dillo-viewer:amd64: claws-mail-dillo-viewer:amd64 depends on<br>
claws-mail (= 3.17.4-1); however: Version of claws-mail on system is<br>
3.16.0-1.<br>
<br>
When I installed claws-mail via "sudo apt install", version 3.16.0-1<br>
was what I got. As far as I can discern, dillo-viewer plugins are<br>
available only for claws-mail versions 3.17.4-1, 3.17.5-2 and 3.17.6-1.<br>
<br>
Can I/should I upgrade to a 3.17* version? How do I do this, given<br>
that "sudo apt install gives me 3.16.0-1?<br>
<br>
That's it for now. I will probably have yet more question later.<br>
(Sorry 'bout that! :-) )<br>
<br>
cheers,<br>
<br>
Rolf Turner<br>
<br>
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