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The only way that I know for sure to work is to recreate your folder structure and to import each folder seperately, but you mentioned that that's a path you want to avoid.

You might try this. As you've managed to store everything on an imap server and have TB (The Bat!) access that, make sure you've cached everything, (TB recreates the folder stucture for its local cache)
create a new pop3 account, but don't start to download any mail into it as the rest of the procedure would cause that to get lost.
Close TB (without any compressing on exit)
copy the folders and their contents from your imap account to your pop3 account, copy just the subdirectories and their contents, don't copy the files in your account directory as those contain the account properties and all you would achieve is to create a second imap account.
After doing this you can start TB again, your pop3 account won't show any additional folders, but selecting your pop3 account in the account tree pane and pressing Ctrl-Shift-Alt-L should cause your folder structure to emerge and with any luck also the messages that are supposed to be there.
Note that I've never tried this, as I never played with either Thunderbird or IMAP.
10 October 2006 12:42:53, Roelof Otten.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic3657/message14200/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic3657/message14200/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:42:53 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client Importing thousand of messages (250Mb) in forum The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client.
Hello
I'm searching the best way to import about 200 folders and about 12,000 emails (250Mb) from my current Thunderbird account.

I'm desperately searching a way to import ALL to TheBat

I tried to create a IMAP account, I uploaded all folders/messages (about 250Mb) and then the I connected again to the same IMAP account with TheBat. I see the folder/structure and the messages, but unfortunately I was NOT able to COPY my IMAP folders to a conventional/local/pop3 folder (drag-'n-drop does not work)...
Please, note that I cannot rebuild my old folder structure into TheBat since I have hundreds of folders/subfolders.

Could someone please help me?

TIA
10 October 2006 11:19:45, jeff.]]> http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic3657/message14194/ http://www.ritlabs.com/en/forums/forum4/topic3657/message14194/ Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:19:45 +0300 The Bat! - Configuring the E-mail Client