Thunderbird to another thunderbird to merge the files

[TungFree]

My Hard drive Had security leaks indications, I switched immediately fo another hard drive. My old e-mails I need are on the no secure Hard drive now running under the New Hawrd drive OS XP. I want to add the e-mails from the other Hard drive's Thunderbird to this secure one Thunderbird with a week or 2 e-mails I have been receiving here. Can it be done? If yes How?

 

[Gooberlx2]

I think thunderbird uses a mailbox file. There's probably a way to merge the new and old mailbox files, but I wouldn't know how. In the future you could try checking the "leave mail on server" option so you can just re-download it if it happens again....or switch to IMAP if possible(always my preference).

 

[Zugzwang152]

thunderbird mail files are just plain text files. you can experiment with copy/pasting the contents of one into another. My Inbox file is 106MB and 1.7 million lines of text hehe.

 

[Nothinman]

Doesn't TBird have an import function that you can feed a mbox file?

 

[TungFree]

Doesn't TBird have an import function that you can feed a mbox file?

It has an import function for:
Communicator 4.x
Eudora
Outlook
Outlook Express

Not for itself -IT IS NOT ON THE LIST- from itself (thunderbird to thunderbird) And I do not see an export.
There is a program ThunderStore that will save file by single file the entire e-mail files group one at a time.

If I saved both Thunderbirds and mixed them togeter, I could have these files archived together but no idea how I could bring them all in back to one of thethunderbirds. This is a Shareware program that is CRIPLED so I need to buy it for this one-time-archive, and a lot of work.

I hoped someone knew of a non crippled trial one or a free one.

There is a way to move the folder from one thunderbird to the other, but I will loose one of them.

 

[TungFree]

thunderbird mail files are just plain text files. you can experiment with copy/pasting the contents of one into another. My Inbox file is 106MB and 1.7 million lines of text hehe.

If I was willing to make a single text file without the way they are in there now yes I had done that in the past, I have quite a few folders which it would make for complexity, so ThunderStore is the way you are suggesting and I hope for a free one or a non crippled one.
I want to reformat the Hard drive one of them is on... and do a Fresh Install of XP