[SOLVED] Importing Outlook Express mail

[kwisher]

Hello All,

Not sure if this is the correct forum topic area for this question....

How can I import my mail messages from MS Outlook Express to Thunderbird? I've searched high and low. I found one how-to that had you install the Windows version of Thunderbird. It automatically imported every thing from OE. Then You were supposed to copy the Profiles folder into your home folder for Mint. But for some reason this does not work for me.

Another how-to had me install K-mail and import and then save the messages as a mailbox file. I do not find this format being supported in Thunderbird's import feature.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I guess as a last resort I can forward all my mail to myself but I have a lot of them.

[kwisher]

I figured out why the how-to below was not working:

http://www.howtoforge.com/importing_out ... _evolution

When you copy the profile folder into your Linux home folder, make sure the permissions are set correctly. When I changed the user permission from root to me everything finally showed up.