HowTo import Cyrus Mail-Dir into Thunderbird, without Cyrus?

[Marc Patermann]

Alexandros,

Alexandros Gougousoudis schrieb (03.08.2012 12:33 Uhr):

> one friend got a copy of his maildirectory in Cyrus from the admins of 
> his university when he left. They told him, he can import it into 
> Thunderbird and use the old mails. How can this be done? Is there a 
> converter?
> 
> We're using also Cyrus, all emails are single files in 
> /var/spool/cyrus/mail/user, I don't know any way how to use these files 
> with a mailreader without the serversoftware.  Any hint is welcome
You may be better of at a Thunderbird mailing list.
I would experiment with the ImportExportTools extension.
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Marc