Alexander Sack wrote:
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. :)
Please look here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285305
... and try to verify if you can workaround in the same way the reporter
mentions.
Thanks
Alexander
Rather than commenting out the lines in prefs.js, I did a global search
& replace to "correct" the relative paths. That seems to have fixed the
problem. However, I am curious about why the relative paths even exist.
They seem to point to the original Mozilla Mail mailboxes that the
Thunderbird mailboxes were imported from. For example:
user_pref("mail.server.server5.directory",
"/home/garydale/.mozilla-thunderbird/euen35cm.default/Mail/pop.broadband.rogers-3.com");
user_pref("mail.server.server5.directory-rel",
"[ProfD]../../../../../mnt/communications/NETSCAPE/Users/garydale/Mail/pop.mtwh.phub.net.ca-1.com");
are two consecutive lines from the original prefs.js file that seem to
refer to the same account. One of the comments suggests that the
directory-rel is the one being used, which implies that the whole
importing of mail is just a waste of disk space. The other comment
states that I can safely remove the directory-rel entries.
Can you clarify this issue? What is the purpose of each of the entries?
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