[ubuntu-za] Mail between two versions of Thunderbird

[frans]

It seems every one think TB is very difficult to migrate...not true


On 11/12/07 15:29 PM, Peter Nel wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> For the people struggling with migrating their emails between
> accounts, or computers / OS'es (e.g. windows to->  linux/ubuntu): Like
> others here have said, it really is a matter of copying the folder
> contents of the old location to the new one.
True
> TIP: as long as you don't delete the old stuff you can try again and
> again until you get it right. So don't be scared to experiment;
> sometimes that's just the best approach.
> "Fear" is 4/7ths of "failure" (haha, I just came up with that>.<)
True again (I have no fear. the computer either listens or meet 
Motivation his choice...never needed to use Motivation :( )
> CAVEATS:
> - Sometimes one system may use a different thunderbird foldername as
> the other, I've seen that on different linux distro's; so look out for
> that.
> - Also know that when you start Thunderbird up before having copied
> the mails to the correct location, it will initialize a new account,
> after which it becomes very difficult to migrate
not so just replace the new account's details
(might have to edit the profile  file)
>   (though I have done
> that before too) - if that's the case, delete the newly initialized
> profile, and start again.
>
> I don't currently use any offline mailers, but if I remember
> correctly, if you do it right TB will start up and recognize all your
> previous mails, spam-filter training, mail-rules, addressbooks, etc.;
> as if you were still working on the old system.
Again True
> Good luck to all.
> --
> Péter Nel
>

Here is the profile file of TB


/[General]

StartWithLastProfile=1 {if you change this to 0 you get a promt for the 
profile you want to start up with}



[Profile0]

Name=some profile

IsRelative=1

Path=Profiles/some profile.default

Default=1



[Profile1]

Name=some other profile

IsRelative=0

Path=c:\somplace\Profiles\some other profile.default

/Easy as that... backup your original files before playing with the 
settings... still there is no problems

Windows xp  have two TB folders on in  ....\user\Aplication data\    and 
another under ...\user\local settings\aplication data

Browse the folders to determin where the go. windows vista and 7 have it 
under ....\user\Roaming somewhere

-- 
  When working on a computer you have to know enough:
  To fake what you don't know.
  Google what you can't fake.
  How (and when) to 'motivate' the computer to do what Google won't tell.

Frans de Waal
IT Manager/
Dormakorp