Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Joe Hart wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> This is not the problem. For example, if I create a new account it is stored
> in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/Local Folders-1 . So it is
> able to recognize that I am using .mozilla-thunderbird. However it is not
> recognizing my other folders.
>
> For example, I currently have
>
> $ls -al ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/
> total 28
> drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:06 ./
> drwx------ 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:05 ../
> drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:04
> kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu/
> drwxr-xr-x 45 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 Local Folders/
> drwxr-xr-x 4 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2005-06-08 16:28 News & Blogs/
> drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 News & Blogs-1/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 pop.gmail.com/
>
> all these are different different accounts. However, None of these showing
> up.
It sounds to me like something modified your prefs.js file. That is the
file that controls which mail folders and accounts are available.
According to the official documentation, you're not supposed to directly
edit that file, but I know it is possible. BUT you cannot let IceDove
create a profile.
So, the best thing I would think would be to purge icedove and then
install in again, run it once, and cancel the wizard, then exit the
program and move your mail (including all of the files listed above) to
the directory it created. Once copying is done, start IceDove again and
your mail should be there.
Joe
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