Alexander Sack wrote:
Gary Dale wrote:
The bug is still there. Please help! I'd love to switch from Mozilla to
Mozilla-Thunderbird, but I can't get it to work with my existing e-mail.
The import works but then I get:
selected locale: en-US
DOUBLE-CLICK: 250 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1
/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 29565
Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
when I try to start Thunderbird (of course, to see the message, I have
to start it from a Konsole - otherwise the application just closes).
My Mozilla Mail runs quite nicely. I have 5 active accounts that I have
open normally, of which 3 get significant amounts of mail. I also have 4
inactive accounts plus my "Local Folders". These accounts are all
currently stored on a server via a symlink from my mail folder to the
mail folder on the server (don't ask me why I just didn't link the
entire Mozilla folder to the server). The Thunderbird conversion puts
about 1.4G onto my local drive.
what is the size of the mozilla profile? about the same size?
The only other problem I'm having is famd seems to go crazy and eats up
resources, so I kill it after each reboot. If I don't, it quickly
destabilizes my system, making it unusable within 30 minutes or so of
startup. Once famd is killed however, my system is very stable.
Hmmm ... can't tell if this is the case. Anyway I suspect that maybe
link within your profile *might* be a problem. Have you tried to somehow
unwrap that link to the local harddisk (inside your profile) before
importing? Just to verify if the reason for your problems *is* or *is
not* the symlink. Please be careful and take extra care to backup your
mozilla profile and the mail boxes before doing this. I don't want be
responsible for any lost mail ;)
Cheers,
Alexander
Nope. I created a "mail" directory, copied my files to it, deleted the
symlink, then renamed "mail" to "Mail". I verified that mozilla mail
could read access my mail, then installed Thunderbird. I got exactly the
same results.
This is exactly what I would have expected, as the conversion completes
successfully. The problem is that Thunderbird then refuses to start.
However, clearly something about the conversion is the key, since I can
install and start Thunderbird provided that I don't do a conversion of
my mozilla mail files.
However, this is not a solution as the "import" function within
Thunderbird doesn't allow me to import all my mozilla mail files after
the fact. This does seem like a strange omission, since clearly the
capability of importing a mozilla mail address book, for example, is
there. Call me lazy, but the prospect of setting up everything manually
through exports and imports is too much work right now - especially
since I have no guarantee that it will work any better than the
automatic import. :)
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