Comments on: Import Thunderbird to Zimbra Desktop

By: Francois

Francois — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:14:00 +0000

Also, I had to make sure the file was ending with .tgz instead of .tar.gz to import properly

By: Francois

Francois — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 10:10:00 +0000

Actually there is a newer thunderbird export plugin named ImportExportTools, see:
http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
It includes the option to set the file timestamp equal to mail date. By default it’s off, to set it go to menu Tools>ImportExportTools>Options>Add date to the file properties

By: anezch

anezch — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:33:45 +0000

Hi, I’m trying to import emails from Thunderbird to Zimbra Desktop version 2.0.1. I’m not using any plugins, instead, I use built-in save function (file-save as) in Thunderbird. I tried some folder structures in the tar.gz archive but it always end up with ‘Not allowed to import to root folder for this type’ when I import it in zd. Is it different saving with built-in save function with using save/export function provided by the plugins?

By: Coco

Coco — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:42:36 +0000

Hi,

I change the code because the days from 1 to 9 were not wotking with the first version…

#! /bin/sh
REP_SOURCE=”/PathToYourEMLFolder”
find ${REP_SOURCE} -type f | while read A ; do
echo $A ;
grep -m 1 Date “$A” | while read TD; do
Length=$(echo ${#TD})
if [ $Length -eq 38 ] ; then
echo “======== Jour a 2 chiffres ! =======”
DD=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 12, 2)}’)
Month=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 15, 3)}’)
YYYY=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 19, 4)}’)
HH=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 24, 2)}’)
MM=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 27, 2)}’)
else
echo “======== Jour a 1 chiffre ! =======”
DD=0$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 12, 1)}’)
Month=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 14, 3)}’)
YYYY=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 18, 4)}’)
HH=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 23, 2)}’)
MM=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 26, 2)}’)
fi
case $Month in
Jan) MM=01 ;;
Feb) MM=02 ;;
Mar) MM=03 ;;
Apr) MM=04 ;;
May) MM=05 ;;
Jun) MM=06 ;;
Jul) MM=07 ;;
Aug) MM=08 ;;
Sep) MM=09 ;;
Oct) MM=10 ;;
Nov) MM=11 ;;
Dec) MM=12 ;;
esac
echo $YYYY$MM$DD$HH$MM;
touch -t $YYYY$MM$DD$HH$MM “$A”;
done
done

By: Coco

Coco — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:01:47 +0000

I Did a small shell script as a work around concerning the date showed in Zimbra panel are just the imported day. It’s change the date of the EML files after the conversion from mbox file…

#! /bin/sh
REP_SOURCE=”/PathToYourEMLFolder”
find ${REP_SOURCE} -type f | while read A ; do
echo $A ;
grep -m 1 Date “$A” | while read TD; do
echo “======== On a la date ! =======”;
DD=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 12, 2)}’);
Month=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 15, 3)}’);
YYYY=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($O, 19, 4)}’);
HH=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 24, 2)}’);
MM=$(echo $TD | awk ‘{ print substr($0, 27, 2)}’);
case $Month in
Jan) MM=01 ;;
Feb) MM=02 ;;
Mar) MM=03 ;;
Apr) MM=04 ;;
May) MM=05 ;;
Jun) MM=06 ;;
Jul) MM=07 ;;
Aug) MM=08 ;;
Sep) MM=09 ;;
Oct) MM=10 ;;
Nov) MM=11 ;;
Dec) MM=12 ;;
esac
echo $YYYY$MM$DD$HH$MM;
touch -t $YYYY$MM$DD$HH$MM “$A”;
done
done

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 18:13:54 +0000

Your instructions made the import process a walk in the park. Had a bit of a problem using the mbx2eml utility. The SmartSave addin worked for me.

Just one thing to note when importing your mail. The folder names have to be unique. Some of my personal folders were not imported the first time. A second import renamed all the folders and a manual move and attempt to rename the moved folders highlighted an issue with duplicate names (identical names in different parts of the folder structure).

By: Rick vV

Rick vV — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:19:46 +0000

The Import process went fine, and most of the dates remained as they were, but some messages picked up the time that the mbx2eml process ran (Win7 64bit, Zimbra Desktop 1.04, Thunderbird v3).
Thanks for the tutorial

By: Marijan

Marijan — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:00:30 +0000

Hi!
I’m trying to import inbox from Thunderbird to Zimbra Web Client. All steps but the final one work well. Zimbra says that importing was successfull, but nothing happens in inbox. I can’t see any imported mail. Nor is the size (in MB) of the inbox larger.
I noticed that when I export my inbox from Zimbra, it creates bot msf and meta file for each e-mail. But when creating eml files with mbx2eml I don’t get any meta files. Could that be the problem?
I would be very thankful for some answer.

By: Aris

Aris — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:52:45 +0000

Greetings, Zimbra desktop 1.0.4 refuses to import.

I managed to convert some mails to .msg format. I created a Test folder, I archived it to tar and the to gzip.

I press import on Zimbra, it say Import complete but no mails appear.

By: Lorenzo Gitto

Lorenzo Gitto — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:25:14 +0000

Hello Everyone,
Procedure works very well but date showed in Zimbra panel are just the imported day date. So I miss the original date!! What happend? I used mbx2eml
Thank you to you all