Re: Lucy & the Football
george5@georgesbasement.com wrote:
My previous posting regarding mounting the newly installed
hard drive was helped quite a lot with the advice I read
here ... thank you very much. There's a superb way of finding
out all about an unknown drivge, and that's "sudo cfdisk /dev/hdd"
whereupon it told me the names of all the drive's partitions,
there file types, etc. So now I have three hard drives on the
system, all working, more or less. More about cleaning them
up later.
This email is about Mozilla-thunderbird. I was startled to find
that the Mozilla that Debian installed on my 'puter had no email
client, so I searched around a little, found out that Thunderbird
is preferred by a plurality of users, and so I used apt-get to
retrieve it and install it from the debian.org server. Went in
very smoothly, and in less than five minutes I had configured it
and downloaded 150 messages from my SpamCop.net popmail server.
Then a couple of problems surfaced:
1. The menu items highlight to white on white.
This is a common bug already posted here before. You can check for fixes
in the list archives.
2. The second time I opened Thunderbird, it was empty, and the
Install Wizard wanted all my data all over again. 150 messages
vanished ... but it had let me do the setup all by myself without
a peep of complaint.
I think that happened. First you installed thunderbird and as root, you
configured the account in thunderbird. Then you log off root and as
joe-user you tried to access your mail. As you configured your account
as root, you can't use it as joe-user. This is the reason you saw the
wizard asking you to setup a new account. Your original account is in
root's home /root/.mozilla-thunderbird
3. I looked up on the Mozilla-Thunderbird website to find out
where my Inbox is stored (ostensibly so I can back it up) but the
instructions bear no resemblance whatsoever to the menus and
organization of _my_ Thunderbird install.
For backup of your mail you can targzip your .mozilla-thunderbird and
burn it to a cd.
Or, if you are using firefox too, and you have want to backup its
configuration at the same time, you can do:
1. create a folder in your home, e.g.:
$ mkdir Profiles
2. rename your profile to some better name than the default, i.e joe-firefox
$ mozilla-firefox -ProfileManager
3. do the same for thunderbird
$ mozilla-thunderbird -ProfileManager
4. move .mozilla/firefox/joe-firefox and
.mozilla-thunderbird/joe-thunderbird to your new directory
$ mv .mozilla/firefox/joe-firefox profiles
$ mv .mozilla-thunderbird/joe-thunderbird Profiles/
5. edit .mozilla/profiles.ini to something like the following (the
important keys are IsRelative, Path and Default):
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=joe-firefox
IsRelative=0
Path=/home/joe/Profiles/joe-firefox
Default=1
6. Edit .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini and do the same:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=joe-thunderbird
IsRelative=0
Path=/home/joe/Profiles/joe-thunderbird
Default=1
After that, you can tar gzip the profiles dir and all your mozilla data
will be backed up in one step.
4. There's a connection between (1) and (2) of course.
Just the described
regards,
Miguel
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