Importing mail archive into Thuderbird

[JD]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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> On 07/29/2014 04:54 PM, JD wrote:
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> Did you download them using Thunderbird?
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> Um.  I never saw an option/way to do that.  I downloaded the .qz then extracted it into my home dir.
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> I found a plugin that claims to be able to import mail.  I am assuming that the archives are mbox, but I have no idea where it imported them to.  Most definitely not my inbox.
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> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
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> I am asking this here, as my system is F20 with Thunderbird 24.7.0.
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> I have downloaded an month's archived messages for Centos-arm and want to
> import them into Thunderbird where I could then respond to them more easily.
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> I tried the Tools>Import but when I select email, nothing is listed in the
> dialog box.  So how might I do the import?  Where might i find instructions?

In that case, you will not be able to use that file as a mail folder
in thunderbird, nor will you
be able to use thunderbird to extract the messages from it into some
other folder.
It's format is very different to the format of mailfolders used (and
created) by thunderbird.