[Users] Some claws mail questions.

[Lawrence London]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 1:25 AM Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 22:28:09 -0700
> Lawrence London <lfljvenaura at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > They are not readable without that header at the top of each message. A
> > file could contain hundreds or thousands of messages.
>
> Which also means one corrupt file and thousands of messages are lost.
> Claws Mail, on the other hand, uses MH mailbox format by default, where
> each
> message is one file.
>
> Mbox files can be imported using /File/Import mbox file...
> This is, again. mentioned in the FAQ.
>

Fantastic. This will be very useful. Thanks! I have a lot of old TBird
folders (mbox files) that I would like to import into Claws.
I will make this a project.

>
> But if MBOX format is your thing, you can use the mailMBOX plugin to use
> MBOX
> directly.
>

That would be worth trying.

>
> with regards
>
> Paul
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