How to convert a .doc into email?

You'd need to convert the text document into a format readable by Thunderbird. I think in this case it would be .LDIF Why do you only have a .doc file? I assume at some point you or someone else copied and pasted these emails into Word? What's happened to the source? If you still have access to that, you could export the emails as a usable file, which would be way simpler.

Also, this http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Migration.

Perhaps I should state the question differently. I have these emails only in this .doc format. I know how to import files into Thunderbird but it cannot import in this format. How can I take my current file and convert it to a file format that can be imported by Thunderbird? Thanks.

Well, to save it as a text file, you'd do: open in Word (or other word processor), go to File > Save As > select .txt file format from the drop-down menu. From there I don't know how you get the Thunderbird format, though.

Here's a http://lists2.ssc.com/pipermail/linux-list/2006-February/026220.html that converts plain text files to mbox format. Here's how to run that script using http://www.python.org/doc/2.2.3/mac/node7.html I think, but I'm not sure, you'll need to change the lines in the script that say 'infile' and 'outfile' to the names of your files. So your input file might be 'mybigassemailarchive.txt' and your outfile would be 'mybigassemailarchive.mbox'. Basically, copy and paste the script into a new text file, save it as 'Convertor.py' on your desktop. Change the lines as above. Install Python, if it's not already installed. Drag the script onto the Python Interpreter icon to run it. And Bob's Your Uncle.

Thunderbird uses the http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/mail-mbox-formats.html format. This is close to the format of the message defined. Mboxrd defines messages as starting with From followed by a single blank space, and ending in a blank line. Assuming the next message starts immediately after the line at the end (so ther is only one line with each message) you need to: 1. Replace the line with a blank line 2. Convert the first instance of 'From:' to 'From ' (i.e. the line 'From: IN%"[email protected]" "A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN" 10 JAN 1995 13:17:29.96' but not 'From: A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN') There is also a stray IN% and pair of quotes. You can probably tackle this by doing a search an replace swapping 'From: IN%"AMILLER' for 'From ' then removing the rest of the IN% and quote marks on subsequent passes. Then save it to a text file and you should be able to import it into Thunderbird. N.B. The Python script http://ask.metafilter.com/107751/How-to-convert-a-doc-into-email#1553040 linked does nothing like this. It converts from "foo at bar.com" to "[email protected]" and puts in line feeds. (you might have a problem with line feeds, if you are on Windows thunderbox's version of mboxrd insists on the Unix way, but I would suspect not, in any case that is a different problem we can solve).