Move mail from OSX to Trisquel ?
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Hello all.
Is is possible to transfer mail from my Mac laptop mail client over to Trisquel?
Thank you.
"Is is possible to transfer mail from my Mac laptop mail client over to Trisquel?"
Probably, but this isn't the way you want to think of it because it's too broad and vague and no one can help without further details. More specifically you want to think of transferring your mail from THIS PARTICULAR APP in Appleland to this OTHER PARTICULAR APP in Trisquel (because let's face it there are lots of email programs available on both the Apple side and the GNU/Linux side.)
So: What program are you using for email on Apple's operating system?
And then: What program are you using for email on Trisquel?
Once that's answered then the better question can be formed: How to transfer your email from SpecificProgramX to SpecificProgramY?
Once this more-specific question has been formed there is probably even information on the Internet about that specific situation. But until that more specific question has been put together, this a vague and broad topic.
I mean, I could say "Sure; you want to use this particular script to parse the old UNIX mailbox format into a newer & more modern maildir format, piping your messages through procmail in the meantime to sort them into various mailboxes..." but maybe that's not relevant for your situation.
Hopefully you see my point.
Thanks for the tip.
I'm looking to transfer email from the mac mail client to trisquel Ice Dove.
Given that, it might make more sense to divide up the transfer into two parts. Icedove is really a rebranded version of Thunderbird. So perhaps first you'd go back to your Mac and make the transition from Apple's Mail.app to Thunderbird. That would handle the conversion. Then, the copying of the Thunderbird stuff over to Icedove should be easier since the harder part of doing the translating will have already been done.
Once Thunderbird is installed on your Mac it should be possible to go to the Tools menu and select Import and get your stuff from Apple's Mail program.
Once you're that's done and you're ready to go to Trisquel, see the "Manually moving files" part of "Moving Thunderbird Data to a New Computer" at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer
name at domain wrote:
> Is is possible to transfer mail from my Mac laptop mail client over to
> Trisquel?
You ought to consider keeping the email on the server and using IMAP from
each of your clients to connect to the server. This approach will let you
connect to the server with multiple email clients (even simultaneously) and
not have to do more than one transfer (from your MacOS client to the server).
At least, use IMAP to simplify the transfer process. Once everything's downloaded to the email app in Trisquel, you could then reconsider whether you really want your emails sitting in someone else's server.
Another issue is if you're using Apple's own email service (with a dot-mac, me-dot-com, or iCloud address). As a refugee from Apple myself, I have begun to encounter significant hassles in being able to send outgoing emails through Apple's SMTP servers when using a non-Apple email client. (My wife is encountering significant hassles in receiving new emails as well.) Looking up their official support information is like falling down a rabbit hole. It implies that it is necessary to enable dual-factor authentication first (which apparently can only be done on Apple hardware), then setting up an "app-specific password" unique to the non-Apple app you're using. It's not clear whether this policy applies only to iCloud email addresses, or is also necessary for users of the older domain names such as mac-dot-com and me-dot-com which I have been using.
To add to the mess is my ongoing paralysis-by-analysis of what email service and address to use instead of Apple's. I've seen the various threads about this in these forums but am still undecided. I so wish that email-dot-com, a near-perfect generic domain name, were owned and controlled by a company like Protonmail.
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