Re: Accessing/processing archived emails

On 04/13/22 10:43 AM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:

That's not surprising - I've just realised that his reply was to me and not to the list ... DOH!

Sorry, it was supposed to have been to the list!  :-)

Frank, here's my original reply:

Paul, if I understand you correctly, you're making this more difficult than you need to.  I do this all the time.

Simply set up T-bird (You don't need to even set up the fetch/put mail) let it create the inbox, shut it down, move the old mbx/etc files into the inbox folder, and restart thunderbird.  It will see the folders and emails within them, and from there it's pretty simple to sort/filter delete.

Let me know if you need more details or want to talk.