Re: Problem incorporating old mail from Thunderbird

[William F Hammond]

Angel de Vicente <angelv@iac.es> writes:

> I'm trying to import all my archived mail, which until now I was
> managing with Thunderbird. I have several archive files in Thunderbird,
> and all of them have worked very well when importing to Gnus (G f), but
> with one of them, it only finds 3 articles, despite the actual number
> being around 3700. 
> . . .
> Any idea what could be the problem and how to solve it?

I believe that G f sets up nndoc

And I assume the file is in "mbox" format.

If so, then I've seen this.

My experience is that the problem happens when the first message is
multi-part.

The work-around is to add a phony almost nil first message with no
mime stuff and a plain text message body to the file.  Multi-part
messages in the file after the first message should be OK.

(*** And once in the past I reported this as a bug. ***)

                                    -- Bill