Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote:
>
> This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's
> mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on
> yours.
On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
rajulocal@kusumanchi:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM
$ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/
total 36
drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg
drwx------ 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/
-rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini
>
> When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside
> called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any
> directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example.
>
> #Begin file
> [General]
> StartWithLastProfile=1
>
> [Profile0]
> Name=default
> IsRelative=0
> Path=/media/share/Mail
> #end file
>
> See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to
> wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it.
>
My profiles.ini file is
$cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=bafaowsk.default
Default=1
Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do?
raju
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