As I recall, when you are running Thunderbird you can import your emails=20
one user at a time.  Don't use the backup on TBird from the menu, last I=20
tried it, it was not ready for prime time! Use the Mozzilla back up, it=20
works fine to do either partial or full profile back ups. The backup=20
files are in plain ascii. I have not yet started but it looks like a=20
simple list processing program could remove the header junk and leave=20
the relevant information to save quite a lot of chaff from the ASCII files.
Try it, it is free, quick & easy!

On 3/21/2012 9:59 PM, PICdude wrote:
> I've been running on webmail for the past few years (long, but valid
> story), and now I need to download and keep all of it.  Roughly just
> under 2GB over 3 email accounts.
>
> I used to download to a Linux box, but that's full and I don't have
> that machine at hand currently.  So I setup Thunderbird (as it uses
> the same maildir format, so I should be able to merge later) using
> POP3, but it hangs after some time, and can't continue.  Out of ~7000
> emails in one account, it hangs about half-way.
>
> I'm ideally after an email client (for Windows XP), that uses maildir
> format, which is either very reliable (and will retry, check for
> errors, etc) or better... will allow me to download by specific date
> ranges.  This way, I can grab a few months at a time and let it delete
> those as it goes along.
>
> Or if any of you have any better (simple) ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> -Neil.
>

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