Bird Import

Bird Import is the add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird.
The add-on allows to import e-mail messages from The Bat!

How to use?

1. Get the Bird Import from AMO.
2. In Thunderbird open Tools menu → choose Import…
3. On the import screen choose E-mails and continue.
4. From the list of programs choose The Bat! and continue.
5. After import, e-mails are stored under Local Folders / The Bat! mail.

Download

Get the latest version from AMO: Download Bird Import

Source code is on github. Add-on is released under Mozilla Public License.

Known issues

E-mails are imported only from current installation of The Bat! When TB! is not installed, import will not be able to find the mailbox folder.

Works currently only on Windows.

The original folder structure is retained, so the e-mails need to be manually resorted after migration.

Bird Import does not parse account settings files (ACCOUNT.CFG or ACCOUNT.CFN). This has following results:

• Folder default character encoding is not imported.
• E-mails are imported without their attachments if user chosen for the account to "Store the attachments in separate folder".
• If user set the option "Store e-mail database in different folder", Bird Import will not import these e-mails as it cannot find them.

Support

Foung bug, need help? Catch me on birdimport (at) brainbox (dot) cz.

Are you on Github? File a bug report right there.

Changelog

2011-07-05: 1.0.1

• Fixed issue #16. Extension could sometimes not find the profile directory.
• Update compatibility to Thunderbird 8.*.

2011-07-05: 1.0

• First release on AMO.

2011-06-19: ?

• Code published on Github.

© Michal Kočárek at brainbox.cz 2008 – 2012