# Best and most complete importer for SMF2 forum?

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**Category:** Migration\
**Tags:** smf\
**Created:** [4월 15, 2015, 1:28오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-and-most-complete-importer-for-smf2-forum/27595 "2015-04-15T13:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![elberet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elberet/32/122404_2.png) [@elberet](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elberet)\
**Post date:** [4월 17, 2015, 6:09오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-and-most-complete-importer-for-smf2-forum/27595/9 "2015-04-17T06:09:09Z")

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> [@AgustinCordes](#):
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> It’s mostly my obsession to make the transition as seamless as possible

I was in the same place a few months ago, but in the end I decided that importing SMFs private messages and polls just wasn’t worth the effort. Polls weren’t used in my forum and private messages in SMF are just too weird: you can collect a string of messages into a conversation as would be required for Discourse’s idea of PMs, but SMF stores recipients for _each_ individual (private) post.

A generic solution would either have to split an SMF2 PM thread into several Discourse PMs, one for each unique, non-contained set of participants, possibly duplicating messages to achieve this, or make all private messages in a conversation visible to all participants which might break confidentiality… 😖

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