Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
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On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:10:10PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 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
>
I may be wrong but wouldn't that just be boolean?
i.e. "Default=True"
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