[nflug] Migrating Thunderbird email from one machine to another

[Joe]

I'm just getting my new notebook up to speed and I'd like to get all my 
tb email from my old notebook and desktop transfered over and merged.

One problem I have is that my old desktop is my "master" email "store" 
with almost all my email on it (except some that I sent from my 
notebooks).  The notebooks are set to read email (from several accounts) 
and leave it on the server for the "master" to get and delete.  This 
means that if I do a straight merge, I'll get an unmanageable number of 
duplicates.

Anyone done this?  What's the easiest way?

Is there anything like a "remove duplicate records" utility for emails?

Here's what I know so far:

There's an extension called mboximport that may be able to do most of 
it, but afaik that will involve creating a bunch of temporary new 
subfolders and manually copying all the emails from the temporary 
subfolders to their final destinations, duplicates and all.  I have 
already used this a little bit for moving a few emails back and forth 
between machines.

There's another program called Synching Thunder, but I don't know how to 
use it.  I copied my whole .thunderbird directory from my old notebook 
to a thumbdrive, plugged it into my new notebook and then tried Synching 
Thunder on it.  All I got was a ton of error messages about my folders.

Thanks.

Joe
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