Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
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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
>
So you found it. Good. Now notice that the IsRelative on your system
is 1 and on mine is 0. That is because I specifically give it a
directory to use rather than use the one inside the folder that the
profiles.ini is stored. That way, 1) it's not in a hidden directory and
2) allows other users to get to the mail (since I share that directory).
The reason I set it up this way is becuase when I first started using
GNU/Linux, I still used Windows, and it was a pain having two separate
email folders. If I checked my mail with Windows, I couldn't see it in
Linux and vice versa (mainly the latter). I set up Thunderbird on the
windows side to use that folder and I told Thunderbird on the Linux side
to use the same folder. Works fine.
It took me a while to figure out how to do all that because I was so new
to Linux at the time, and there are some confusing web pages that tell
one to modify the prefs.js file, which is totally unnecessary.
Now I don't use Windows anymore, but never bothered to change my mail
around.
After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do
we need to troubleshoot it further?
Joe
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