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f0dder:
Hep,

I've been considering giving ThunderBird a go, and see whether it can handle my current mail base efficiently. To do that, I obviously need to export all my emails from The Bat!. TheBat does have built-in support for MBOX export, but I would need to click each folder of each account, Ctrl+A selecting all mails for each folder, and then exporting. Suffice to say, this is tedious.

With a bit of googling I found BackupTheBat, which unfortunately has no website dedicated to it, only mentions at a few blog postings... appearantly made by the Hungerian distributors of TheBat?. Anyway, it seems like it's supposed to do the trick, but on my machine it ends up consuming 100% CPU and doing nothing.

Do any of you guys know a better (working :)) solution, or should I try my hand at writing a TheBat plugin?

lanux128:
this guy is attempting to do the same. maybe you can get in touch with him.. :)

Thunderbird Import Extension
Goal

I like to have an extension for Thunderbird which is able to import mails from The Bat! 1.x into Thunderbird. Preferably all existing information such as account information, passwords and address books will be migrated, too.
• http://www.felix-schwarz.name/Thunderbird_Import_Extension_(en)

f0dder:
lanux: that guy is doing it in a roundabout way, though - why go through the hard steps of reverse engineering and writing an importer, when you can write an exporter instead? Even an app that sends window messages to TheBat to query the folder structure and then use the built-in mbox exporting would work, and although it would obviously be a hack... well, less work than reversing the file format.

lanux128:
hmm.. true enough, that sounds like more work.. but how about programs like this, would they cut the mustard?

• http://www.processtext.com/abcbat.html
• http://www.processtext.com/abctbb.html

f0dder:
hmm.. true enough, that sounds like more work.. but how about programs like this, would they cut the mustard?

• http://www.processtext.com/abcbat.html
• http://www.processtext.com/abctbb.html
-lanux128 (December 31, 2007, 09:16 PM)
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Perhaps - but it doesn't seem that any of them exports to MBOX format. Now, the XML export coudl probably be used and then I could write an XML->MBOX converter, but... ugh, probably easier to just scan the .TBB (mail base) files and ignore the .TBI (index) files :)

I think I'll have a go at either writing a TheBat! plugin for doing this (if the necessary functionality is exported - christ the SDK docs are lousy!), or an external app that simply sends windows messages to TheBat to automate the process...

Unless you can find something better, seems like my googling skills suck :(

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