[MlMt] mbox

[John Doherty]

Interesting. When I just tried this again, I first selected the 26 
messages I currently have from this mailing list, exported them, and 
then deleted them.

Then, when I import the mbox file, I can choose whatever location I 
want, and everything works as expected. In this case, I chose to import 
them to the inbox of an account other than the one they came from 
originally.

Then I did it again, this time to the inbox of a different account. Also 
worked fine and as expected.

So... not sure what's going wrong for you. One thing that might be worth 
noting: if there is an existing INBOX.mbox file in the location chosen 
with "Select Export Folder" when you export messages, the new messages 
are appened to the existing file and do not replace it.

On Thu 2023-04-06 09:28 AM MDT -0600, <alain.israel at pasteur.fr> wrote:

> I first tried to repeat your operation :  I exported your email as an 
> mbox, reimported it, and it worked OK. Then I  tried using a 
> previously exported mbox (containing 36 messages) using the Import 
> messages submenu under File, and the result was quite unexpected : 
> first it only proposed me to import the mbox file into the Inbox of 
> one of my email account (which is not the place I wanted to import 
> it), I pressed yes (which was a bad idea) and that Inbox became 
> populated by messages from a mbox different from the one I wanted to 
> import.
>
> So there is something wrong, that I need to clarify.
>
> Alain