Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
Joe Hart wrote:
> KS wrote:
>> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
>>> Kushal Kumaran wrote:
>>>
>>>> You haven't mentioned what error message, if any, you are getting.
>>>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile has info on backing
>>>> up and restoring thunderbird profiles. Maybe something there might
>>>> help.
>>> The page says that, In Linux the path is ~/.thunderbird. However my files
>>> are located in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird and not ~/.thunderbird. Except for
>>> this difference, everything is as the page suggests.
>>>
>> The reason for that one difference is that your profile location wasn't
>> changed when thunderbird's settings changed from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
>> to ~/.thunderbird as the default location. Debian maintainers might have
>> decided let the user use the old location than force them to change to
>> the new one or create new accounts.
>
>> /KS
>
>
> Why would they do that in the first place. If they (the maintainers)
> were going to change it, wouldn't it make more sense to call it
> .icedove? That happened with IceWeasel.
>
> Joe
>
The change from ~/.mozilla-thunderbird to ~/.thunderbird happened much
before Debian got Icedove. It was an upstream change.
/KS
PS: replied to Joe directly by mistake.
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