[MlMt] mbox

[John Doherty]

[Somehow this messages was sent only to the previous correspondent and 
not also to the list. Apologies.]

On Thu 2023-04-06 09:58 AM MDT -0600, <alain.israel at pasteur.fr> wrote:

> 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.
>
> That my main problem : I cannot choose the destination (beside the 
> fact that the messages that appeared are from a different mbox, but 
> this is too weird to be true….). Have you tried to import your mbox 
> into something different from an Inbox, like a specific mailbox?

I am using an older version of MailMate: 1.13.2 (5673), so everything 
I'm doing and saying depends on that. I have not looked at any newer 
versions yet.

I have an "Options" button in the lower left of the dialog box that 
comes up when I choose "Import Messages..." from the File menu. This 
lets me choose a destination for the imported messages. I've only tried 
a couple but expect that anything would work.

> I don’t see a “Select export folder” : I use the Copy to mbox 
> command under Bundles-Export, to export.

Hmmmm... on the Command->Export menu item, I have a submenu with three 
items: Copy to Folder, Copy to mbox, and Select Export Folder. The last 
one lets me select a location where the results of "Copy to mbox" will 
end up.

> In fact I previously exported dozens of mailboxes (that end up in a 
> folder on my desktop), which I then saved locally into Thunderbird 
> (for archiving purposes, as discussed previously), but then I wanted 
> to reimport one that I still needed, and this is where the problems 
> began.