Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
>
>> After this long and irrelevant story, do you have your mail back or do
>> we need to troubleshoot it further?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
> Interesting experience. Thanks for sharing it.
>
> However, I still have the same problem : When I start icedove, it brings up
> the "account wizard" instead of seeing the already existing accounts.
>
> raju
>
I know why. The default mail directory and your mail directory are not
the same. The easy fix is to put your mail somewhere else (like
/home/raju/mail then adjust the profile.ini file to not use a relative
path and to use specifically that directory.
The problem comes because thunderbird generates a random name for the
directory where the mail sits. The directory structure should look
something like this:
joe@lr32:/media/share/Mail$ ls -p
abook.mab install.log prefs.js
cert8.db key3.db reminderfox/
compatibility.ini Local Folders/ secmod.db
compreg.dat localstore.rdf signature.txt
cookies.txt Mail/ signature.txt~
downloads.rdf mailViews.dat signons.txt
extensions/ mimeTypes.rdf training.dat
extensions.cache News/ virtualFolders.dat
extensions.ini panacea.dat xpti.dat
extensions.rdf persdict.dat XUL.mfasl
history.mab pgprules.xml xul.mfl
Not all of the files are needed, but most of them are. Of course
reminderfox/ is an extension that I use, so wouldn't likely be there for
you.
Notice there is a Mail folder inside the Mail directory. This is where
the messages are really stored.
Joe
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