Tux Training

Importing mail from Kmail into Thunderbird can be a huge pain.   It took some searching and reading some blogs that were not very well worded to figure this out.  And even then I had to play around a bit.   The main problem is that Thunderbird uses mbox format to store emails and kmail, by default, creates all of your folders and subfolders in the maildir format. First thing first, make sure you have Thunderbird installed and setup with your email conneciton settings.  Then lets go ahead and get 2 file manager windows open.  One should be open to your Kmail folder that stores all your emails.   These can be a multitude of directories depending on the install.  On my opensuse box it was in: /home/username/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/  on other systems it may be in  ~/Mail/ or  ~/.Mail/.   The other window should have your Thunderbird mail folder open.  This is generally in  ~/.thunderbird/[randomstuff].default/Mail.  Generally speaking most people store their Thunderbird emails in the following directory, /home/username/.thunderbird/kjc1e1t2.default/Mail/Local Folders/.

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Thunderbird is a great and well know open source email client brought to you by the same group that puts out Firefox. But like Firefox, there’s extensions we can add to it to make an already secure application more secure. Welcome to the world of signing and encrypting your emails. This tutorial will already assume you have thunderbird installed, be it your distro’s package or the Mozilla Builds. We will also assume you have installed the Enigmail extension, luckily for me openSuse provides this with their default Thunderbird install from their repo’s. Other’s may have to download and install it from here. And for the last of our assumptions, we will assume you have GnuPG installed as well. Most Linux distributions today include GnuPG by default. To find out if this is the case, get to a command prompt and type gpg –version. If it tells you that you’ve got GnuPG 1.4.9 (or some later version), then you don’t need to do anything: it’s already there. To familiarize yourself with the basics of GPG, look at the man page for it, and also check out a previous entry Tuxtraining has written on the subject.

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Just got done setting up Thunderbird, haven’t used the app or gone extension hunting for it in quite some time. Seems to have come a long way. Anyways stumbled across a couple of things that makes it truly integrate with Google. With a couple of plugins we can setup Thunderbird’s mail and calendar function for bi-directional syncing with google, as well as integrating Gtalk into Thunderbird itself.

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