Re: migrating old mail from thunderbird to icedove
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
$ls -al ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/Mail/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:06 ./
drwx------ 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 17:04
kusumanchi.mae.cornell.edu/
drwxr-xr-x 45 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 Local Folders/
drwxr-xr-x 4 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2005-06-08 16:28 News & Blogs/
drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 News & Blogs-1/
drwxr-xr-x 8 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2006-09-12 22:45 pop.gmail.com/
all these are different different accounts. However, None of these showing
up.
> The problem comes because thunderbird generates a random name for the
> directory where the mail sits. The directory structure should look
> something like this:
>
> joe@lr32:/media/share/Mail$ 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
>
I have similar structure.
$ls -p .mozilla-thunderbird/bafaowsk.default/
95817772.s defaults.ini install.log persdict.dat
abook.mab downloads.rdf key3.db prefs.js
cert8.db extensions/ localstore.rdf secmod.db
chrome/ extensions.cache Mail/ training.dat
compatibility.ini extensions.ini mailViews.dat user.js
components.ini extensions.rdf mimeTypes.rdf virtualFolders.dat
compreg.dat history.mab News/ xpti.dat
cookies.txt ImapMail/ panacea.dat XUL.mfasl
raju
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/
http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/
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