{"id":591,"date":"2009-01-24T22:17:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/?p=591"},"modified":"2014-05-20T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T08:08:03","slug":"switching-mail-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/01\/24\/switching-mail-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching mail clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"604\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/2009\/01\/24\/switching-mail-clients\/thunderbird\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thunderbird.png\" data-orig-size=\"100,100\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Thunderbird\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thunderbird.png\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-604\" title=\"Thunderbird\" src=\"https:\/\/cyberelk.net\/tim\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/thunderbird.png\" alt=\"Thunderbird\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>I&#8217;ve finally come to the end of my tether with the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.gnome.org\/evolution\/\">Evolution<\/a> mail client.\u00a0 It seems to have been getting less reliable over time, to the point that it is now <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.redhat.com\/show_bug.cgi?id=481121\">no longer letting me update my inbox<\/a>.\u00a0 Deciding it was time to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla-europe.org\/en\/products\/thunderbird\/\">Thunderbird<\/a> again, I have taken the plunge and migrated all my email as well as my address book.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Migrating the email was fairly easy.\u00a0 Thunderbird doesn&#8217;t know how to do it on its own, but both Evolution and Thunderbird use mbox format so I just had to close Thunderbird, copy my<br \/>\n<tt>.evolution\/mail\/local\/*<\/tt> folders into<br \/>\n<tt>.thunderbird\/\u2026\/Mail\/Local Folders<\/tt>, then start Thunderbird again.<\/p>\n<p>The address book was harder to migrate.\u00a0 I ended up following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kravlor.com\/node\/15\">these instructions<\/a>: export the contacts list in vcard format and convert it to ldif format using a <a href=\"http:\/\/stud4.tuwien.ac.at\/~e0325716\/vcard2ldif.html\">perl script<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>UPDATE:<\/small> The perl script can lose addresses!\u00a0 Use with care&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve finally come to the end of my tether with the Evolution mail client.\u00a0 It seems to have been getting less reliable over time, to the point that it is now no longer letting me update my inbox.\u00a0 Deciding it was time to try out Thunderbird again, I have taken the plunge and migrated all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[56,54,55],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-email","tag-evolution","tag-thunderbird"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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