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Recently I found an old RAR archive of Thunderbird emails from 2003.
Hmm, let's see what is inside. But how? When I create a new email
account in Thunderbird and paste the files to the related mail profile
folder, Thunderbird only shows up 2 emails - but the old 'Inbox' is
more than 300 MB. So something seems to have gone wrong.

Is there a program to read old and possibly partly corrupted
Thunderbird mailfiles?

Thank you all,
Christian

Christian Drewing wrote:
> Recently I found an old RAR archive of Thunderbird emails from 2003.
> Hmm, let's see what is inside. But how? When I create a new email
> account in Thunderbird and paste the files to the related mail profile
> folder, Thunderbird only shows up 2 emails - but the old 'Inbox' is
> more than 300 MB. So something seems to have gone wrong.
>
> Is there a program to read old and possibly partly corrupted
> Thunderbird mailfiles?
>
> Thank you all,
> Christian
>

Give the backed up files an .mbx extension and then open the files with
MsgView.

Download MsgView from http://www.elbiah.de/tools/old/

Christian Drewing wrote:
> Recently I found an old RAR archive of Thunderbird emails from 2003.
> Hmm, let's see what is inside. But how? When I create a new email
> account in Thunderbird and paste the files to the related mail profile
> folder, Thunderbird only shows up 2 emails - but the old 'Inbox' is
> more than 300 MB. So something seems to have gone wrong.
>
> Is there a program to read old and possibly partly corrupted
> Thunderbird mailfiles?
>
> Thank you all,
> Christian
>

Possibilities

1) corrupted .msf files. Delete them and restart TB

2) could be that the messages have been marked in such a way as to
prevent their being viewed. See:

http://www.eyrich-net.org/mozilla/X-...Status.html?en
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/restoredelmail.html
http://home.att.net/~cherokee67/restoredelmail2.html

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