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Originally Posted by cybmole
I am pretty sure there is no simple way to get years of archived mail ( much of it from old, closed e-mail accounts ) back onto any server.
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I used to be administrator for a company mail server running Linux. Some people wanted to migrate from Thunderbird to Outlook.
so I just:
- took their Inbox file from thunderbird folder. This contains all the mails in order they arrived, exactly in the form they arrived in [in a text format], plus some extra lines in header file for email recording the status of email in the Inbox, such as "read", "deleted", ...
- placed the file on the mail server, into their home directory and renamed it to mail (or was it inbox?). I used the built-in stp server in TotalCommander.
- downloaded thousands of emails to their newly installed Outlook.
So ... if you can persuade administrator, just put the file with mail from Firefox to a [postfix] mail server in an un-changed form.