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[aisrael]

On 6 Apr 2023, at 18:40, John Doherty wrote:

> [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 am using version 5937, but I don’t think it is different. I have the 
same Options button, but it only suggests one destination. HOWEVER it 
also proposes a choice of Sources, and this is where the destination 
folder can be selected. What confused me is to call Source a destination 
folder. Now it works.
>
>> 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.
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