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250 reviews for this add-on
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
ImportExportTools worked flawlessly, importing my 350 Eudora v7.1 mailboxes (with 117k emails) into Thunderbird 3.0 on a Windows 7 machine. While I had prepped the mailboxes with eudrescu (without errors from eudrescu), Thunderbird crashed every time I tried to import the messages. Thank you for building and maintaining this great add-on. The UI, in particular, is very elegant.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (3.0.1).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Thank you very much for ImportExportTools. Its excellent addon, brillant and helpful.
I'm using that "export of all messages in one single plain text file" the feature. It's very thing, all mail combining is a TXT file.
I have three request-suggest.
(1. Request)
By way of my habit of O.Express, I have been backup all mail. OE's headers sequence:
From:
To:
Subject:
Date:
Attachements: filename1.txt, photo2.jpg
ThunderBird's Header sequence not same with OE. Therefore, ImportExportTools use TB sequence:
Subject:
From:
Date:
To:
Could you adding OE sequence? At least, a custom sequences as a option?
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(2. Request)
About Date display format (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Date_display_format).
I'm set prefs.js file: user_pref("mail.ui.display.dateformat.default", 1);
After this setting, ThunderBird can display as "Day-Month-Year-Hour" date format of all mails. Example: 8 July 2013 20:00
Unfortunately TB can't remember the date format setting when saving (File - Save As - File). Still use save default format("Date: 08.07.2013 20:00")
Even if the date format supplied by TB, ImportExportTools can change/fix in saved mails?
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(3. Request)
ImportExportTools perfectly merge all mails "as single plain text". Okay. But no separating line of every mails. Therefore reading can be confusing. Could you add a custom separating character? (etc "-----" ).
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You see, that's all not important. Perhaps, its personal request. If it comes to that and unnecessary for general use, of coure you could take no notice of this suggestions.
At all events, again thank you for ImportExportTools.
Best regards...
About your requests:
1) This requires some work to be implemented and at the present it's not one of priorities. I've not so much time to develop the extension and so I must do a "order of priority". I will keep this in mind for the future, if I will have time enough.
2) Are you talking about headers in saved messages or what else?
3) This is a very useful hint, it will be implemented in the next update.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
Jesus Christ.
Exported folder. Reinstalled everything.
Gladly all the folders were exported without any file extension and I have no fucking idea what the extension should or should not be. So, Im unable to import the emails back.
Im " " that close committing a suicide.
Really awesome addon, I hope I don't ever have to use this retarded spaghetti-code piece of shit ever again.
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
It's a great tool, I use this in this way: I want to copy email from one address to another.
what I do is this:
I export emails as eml fils, and the I import in the others email addres. The problem is that in thunderbir I see the correct received time of the email, but not in gmail, I'm truing to copy the email of work to gmail (I just try email import from gmail) but this tool it's much more pretty and usefull
I'm aware of this problem, but it depends from a underlying bug (of Thunderbird and/or of Gmail), see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747436 , vote and comment it to have some chance that it will be fixed
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent tool. I run a web server which reports attempts to hack in to me with the IP of the source in the Subject line. I have been trying for ages to find a tool to allow me to export just the index list so I can sort it by IP. That will allow me to modify my firewall settings to disallow whole blocks. This extension does it a treat. Well done.
Sadiq
London, UK
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Good tool. However, I cannot get it to export (to eml) the emails in the Trash or Junk folders. Any suggestions?
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent add-on. It did all the export and import of all my emails correctly when I was installing fresh new Operating System and needed to transfer over my inbox. No complaints whatsoever. Good job!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Works fine, but when exporting mails and then importing again all tags are lost. Is it possible to preserve these?
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Is it an IMAP account?
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
In a previous review I complained that this add-one would not import *.eml files as advertised. However, it does and it worked very well. Wish I could delete my previous review, but I can't, so this is my retraction.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4). This user has a previous review of this add-on.Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Really not much to say. Works as advertised. Makes Thunderbird so much more useful in my company environment, where normally Outlook is the standard email client. In particular having a good HTML export is so much more useful.
Still, I have three suggestions however.
First allow for the optional specification of a CSS stylesheet. Currently, after exporting I'm opening the index.html file with an editor and include something like '<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"></link>'. Therefore it would be really nice to have an additional text field to specify the "style.css" in my example. Then I would only have to copy an appropriate CSS file into the export directory for visually pimping the HTML index view. Or perhaps even include the main table within an additional <div class=""></div>, then users could uses http://www.csstablegenerator.com/ to add their own design.
Second, another text field for supplying a custom title for the HTML output. I'm frequently using this extension to export a particular thread of email messages to document a message exchange for instance between a customer and my company about a particular topic. Therefore I would it would really nice to specify a title like "Discussion with customer yyyy about topic xxxx" instead of only a "Export of Messages".
And my last suggestion would be to allow the export of selected messages into a directory with an index.html file. Basically the same as exporting a complete folder with attachements but only for the selected messages. Currently I'm using an empty scratch mail folder into which I'm copying the messages and then export the folder. Apologies, this feature is already there, but I couldn't find it.
Again, thanks for this great Add-On.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
This extension is really good, but I think, need more feature... for example:
- export of index of the messages in a folder (HTML or CSV format) --> insert CC (carbon copy)
- html format with attachments --> don't use absolute link, I think if the program use relative links, I can copy to other location and the links in the html file is working.
Thank you for the good hints, I will add those features in the new major version that I'm developing (unluckly much slower than I would like...)
EDIT: maybe I've misunderstood your requets, because I see both feature in the current version. Please email me to give me more details.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Stellar add-on! Many thanks as it really streamlined things. Would've been a painfully tedious process without it.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Easy and nice. Works on Ubuntu 12.04
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Xubuntu 13.10. Thunderbird 24.2.0. ImportExportTools 2.8.0.4. Locale UTF-8.Cannot export messages with subject in Russian - only "____" in filenames.
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When I go in Tools --> ImportExportTools --> Preferences, click on "Filename" tab and uncheck the first checkbox ("Use just alphanumeric characters in export") - I see sctrange file name "C Ðнем РождениÑ!-20140202-0202-266687.txt".
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But when I go in Tools --> ImportExportTools --> Preferences, click on "Filename" tab and change "Codepage for filename symbols" from UTF-8 to win1251 - all became OK :)
Go in Tools --> ImportExportTools --> Preferences, click on "Filename" tab and uncheck the first checkbox ("Use just alphanumeric characters in export"), it should fix this.
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Cumpriu o que prometeu!
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 5 out of 5 stars
works fine, thanks.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Ciao, ma non sarebbe possibile un'opzione per decidere a che ora fare il backup periodico? Perchè se il primo backup l'ho fatto alle 15 e lo imposto come quotidiano, se il giorno successivo apro Thunderbird e lo chiudo alle 11, il backup non viene fatto, devo chiuderlo dopo le 15...
Grazie
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
The latest version for SeaMonkey (2.2) can't export mail (it doesn't create the files). It works with the 2.8.0.4 TB version - but you have to manually change install.rdf to make it compatible. So for those who can't/won't make that change, please make an updated seamonkey version available.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Rated 3 out of 5 stars
Been using for a while and is a nice add on. Warning - that the website in the 'About this Add-on' redirects to a new website which my Virus software says is infected.
This review is for a previous version of the add-on (2.8.0.4).Your antivirus is wrong, in my website there is no virus or malware. Please be sure before wrtiting this.
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
How do I export EMLs without underscores in their file names when using ImportExportTools 2.8.0.4? I've tried leaving the "charset for filenames" field blank, using ASCll, and UTF-8 in the "charset for filenames" field but the EML file names still came out with underscores. So how do I get rid of the underscores in ImportExportTools 2.8.0.4 like what options need to be set in order to get rid of those or what charset needs to be used in order to get rid of those underscores?
You told us that version 1.2.1 or higher uses all characters so that also includes commas, apostrophes, etc. but it didn't so your statement was false. The commas, apostrophes, etc. were still converted to underscores in version 2.8.0.4.
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