Hi, I don't care much about email but I have 100s of NGs that I want to
move to *pine without having to go to manual settings. Ideally I'd like
to have the same NGs and the exact point to where I was in Thunderbird.

My system is Debian Bullseye.

In the past, I used to use this script, but it would do half the job,
that is move the NGs but not take account of the messages already read.

########### start

$ cat opt/bin/sync2.sh
#!/bin/bash

clear

cd

DIR=sync-$(date +"%m%d%Y")
mkdir $DIR
cd $DIR

echo
echo 'Copying Thunderbird newsrc files'
find ~/.thunderbird/yccty18i.default-release/News/ -type f -name
newsrc-* -mtime -7 -ctime -7|xargs tar cvf - | ( tar xfp -)

##### end

Then I had to edit the newsrc-* file names to fit onto *pine (don't
remember how I did it) but it didn't do what I meant to achieve.

For example, one the files would look like this:

###### start

$ cat
/home/oc/.thunderbird/yccty18i.default-release/News/newsrc-news.eternal-september.org
comp.editors: 1-3588
uk.radio.amateur.moderated: 1-6276
comp.unix.shell: 1-37961
eternal-september.where.are.all.the.newsgroups: 1,2
eternal-september.grouprequests: 1-651
eternal-september.config: 1-879
eternal-september.info: 1-48
eternal-september.moderated: 1-20
eternal-september.support: 1-14464
eternal-september.talk: 1-1245
uk.people.consumers.ebay: 1-25952
free.uk.amateur-radio: 1-15439
free.uk.diy.domestic-appliance-repair: 1-6
free.uk.diy.home: 1-7928
free.uk.jobs: 1-122
free.uk.talk.birmingham: 1-6
uk.d-i-y: 1-1207473
uk.local.birmingham: 1-971

#### end

Can this be done? This should be a one-off job to get rid of Thunderbird
once and for all.

Thanks.

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Ottavio Caruso