[ubuntu-za] Mail between two versions of Thunderbird

[Ian Whitfield]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Jan Greeff <jan at verslank.net> wrote
>> >  Hi Peter, believe it or not, I a still trying to find a way to transfer my mail profile from Thunderbird to Thunderbird on another drive. ( I have two hard drives on my machine, so when I upgrade, I can hopefully backup all my work and do a clean install onto the second drive.) I have no problem with my Open Office files and folders and the address books but the e-mails are a problem.
>> >
>> >  What I did was to copy and paste the .thunderbird folder from the drive that I want to back up into the .thunderbird folder on the spare drive, but the result was that a new .thunderbird folder was created in the existing .thunderbird. So now I have home/jan/.thunderbird/.thunderbird.
>> >
>> >  Do I now have to delete the first .thunderbird profile or how do I get the program to pick up the copied profile?
>> >
>> >  Best wishes,
I will watch this thread with interest!!!

I have used Thunderbird since it started, first on Windows and for the 
last 3 years on Linux. Over this period I have had many computer 
crashes, (under Windows), upgrades to new machines, changes of HDDs etc 
and in all this time I have NEVER, EVER been able to transfer my old 
Mail, Address Books etc to the new system!!!

I have Googled and followed all kinds of ideas but never found an answer.

This should be VERY easy and straight forward but for some reason the 
Developers wrap it up in ... who knows what??
This is not Rocket Science and keeping old eMail etc is important in 
this day-and-age. It SHOULD BE - move ONE Subdirectory/Folder and away 
you go again. Why isn't it this way????

My other big gripe is the inability to export directly out of TB an 
eMail as a plain text file!!!

As I said I will watch this thread.

Ian Whitfield.