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merging mail from different Opera installations
I'm trying to recover some old emails lost in a botched Opera upgrade a week ago. In the meantime I need to answer emails that have come in since then.Can I create two Opera installations on the same computer, one with the new emails and one with the old emails, and then import the emails from one installation to the other? My other choice is to install a different email client, Thunderbird perhaps, and use that temporarily.
- Rob
If you have any IMAP accounts, you just delete them and recreate them.
For feeds, you're stuck. There's really nothing you can do about it.
For pop accounts, you just import one account into another. File -> import and Export -> import mail -> Opera 7\8\9\10 -> browse to the accounts.ini in the mail folder that you want to import from -> select the account in the import item list.
Then, you should be able to pick what messages are your sent messages and choose to import into the existing pop account (which will gray out 'import settings').
If you're doing that with a fresh install of Opera and want to import from 2 other Operas, you import once with settings, which will create a new account. Then, when you import from the other Opera, you'll import the messages into the existing account.
You must do the above separately for each pop account in the import item list.
You'll probably have to recreate any filters that you had.
For feeds, you're stuck. There's really nothing you can do about it.
For pop accounts, you just import one account into another. File -> import and Export -> import mail -> Opera 7\8\9\10 -> browse to the accounts.ini in the mail folder that you want to import from -> select the account in the import item list.
Then, you should be able to pick what messages are your sent messages and choose to import into the existing pop account (which will gray out 'import settings').
If you're doing that with a fresh install of Opera and want to import from 2 other Operas, you import once with settings, which will create a new account. Then, when you import from the other Opera, you'll import the messages into the existing account.
You must do the above separately for each pop account in the import item list.
You'll probably have to recreate any filters that you had.
Originally posted by burnout426:
If you have any IMAP accounts, you just delete them and recreate them.
You lose all the labels you applied, though, and all mail comes as unread, is that correct?
"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self." -- Hindu Proverb
Originally posted by karenina:
You lose all the labels you applied, though, and all mail comes as unread, is that correct?
That depends. The labels are added as flags to the message on the IMAP server. If the IMAP server supports them, they will be retained. If not, the IMAP server has been rejecting the flags and the labels will only be applied for the message locally with your current install of Opera. Same goes for filters.
The read/seen status should be retained.
In short, if it's a good IMAP server, everything will be retained.
To test the IMAP server, install another Opera fresh with a fresh profile etc. and set up the IMAP account. If you see that the labels, filters and read/seen status are still present on the messages, your IMAP server should be good to go. If not, you'll at least will know what you might lose.
Originally posted by burnout426:
The read/seen status should be retained.
In short, if it's a good IMAP server, everything will be retained.
The first sentence is motivating, the second (considering the IMAP server I'm thinking of is GMail) is frightening.
Well, considering I've customized Opera labels to serve me with specific work situations, and that I can't really go without them, I'll do what you suggest - a clean install and check what is retained. If labels are not, I guess I can always create labels/filters on GMail equivalent to those I have used with M2, and then 'transfer' the messages to them manually. It will take some time, but, really, much less time than it would take me to re-classify everything, should I lose the labels I applied.
Thanks!
"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self." -- Hindu Proverb
21. May 2010, 06:50:44 (edited)
Originally posted by karenina:
the second (considering the IMAP server I'm thinking of is GMail) is frightening.
See this post. I think Opera adds its labels as $Label1 $Label2 (make sure you use a capital L)etc. flags on the message. Add a label to a message in Opera. Then manually check the flags for the message to see if the label flag is there.
But, just setting up the IMAP account in another Opera should show you the same thing.
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