Importing mail into Thunderbird

[Viro]

How do I go about importing my email from accounts on Mail.app to Thunderbird 0.8?

 

[bobw]

How do I import e-mail messages from mail.app (MacOS X)?

Go to ~/Library/Mail/ and root out the .mbox files in the finder. These are actually OSX packages. Select Show Package Contents and a new window will open revealing several files including a file named mbox. Copy that file to the subfolder called Mail in your profile folder and rename it to something meaningful. This process needs to be done for each of your mailboxes. Finally start Thunderbird to see the new mail folders.

How do I import the address book (MacOS X)?

You can use the Address Book Exporter application to export your address book to a plain text file. Then, in Thunderbird, select Tools > Import..., select Address Books, click Next and to import a text file.


http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#mail.app

 

[jmags]

What about messages I have stored in mboxes in the "Old Mail" folder (I have a number of them there named for various correspondents). When I try to put them in they form whole account with various sub folders, non of which seem to have the stored messages.