Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
This morning I wanted to check my mail, but when I opened Thunderbird,
it asked me to set up a mail account.
are you sure you didnt install a thunderbird / firefox from outside the
yum repo's ?
I saved the contents of the previous .thunderbird file structure with
tar and created a new mail account with the same details (name, isp,
pasword, servers etc.) as the previous account.
you should be able to untar the .thunderbird tarball into another place,
and then basically just move the email files into place in the current
~/.thunderbird
remember to note where the email is expected, and there will be files
per folder and an index for each one called the <foldername>.msf - you
want to get all those over to the new instance.
Also, you might need to rename of the files if you now have new folders
with the same name ( eg. inbox )
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now having said that, before you do anything, check ~/.thunderbird for
more than 1 directory called <something random>.default, and check the
profiles.ini file in the same place. its possible you are just looking
at a new profile, and switching over to the older profile will be all
you need.
And then you can work out howto get emails from one side to the other.
Thanks Karanbir,
I will work on this when I get back from work tonight. There are two
directories <something random>.default. When profiles.ini is set to use
the one created when I recreated my mail connection, Thunderbird starts
up with none of my history (as expected). When I edit profiles.ini to
use the other (older) setup and start Thunderbird it starts the "wizard"
to create a new connection - so clearly something has been corrupted in
that setup. I will try to copy the important data from there to the new
setup.
ChrisG
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