Further to the discussion below, I have been using Thunderbird for over
a week now and am enjoying it. However, I note that the mail folders it
imported are in fact NOT being used. My original Mozilla Mail folder are
still the ones that are being updated with new mail, etc.. And they are
the ones that show up in the account's server properties.
Please understand that I actually prefer this state of affairs, since it
gives me greater flexibility in my e-mail clients, including being able
to access my e-mail from the Windows machine I used to convert my old
e-mail from Eudora to Netscape years ago.
Nonetheless, I have to consider this to be a bug in that Thunderbird
took the time to move 1.4G of messages from my original folders to my
Mozilla-Thunderbird directory. This was not an inconsequential amount of
time or disk space. And it certainly opens the door to confusion about
which folders need to be backed up.
Hopefully you can work with the Thunderbird people to get these issues
resolved one way or another.
Thanks for your time and expertise!
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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BTW: For some reason which doesn't seem to be connected, since the news
groups don't seem to have the same paths - not sure why - I didn't get
my rogers.com newsgroups imported, but I did get my news.easysw.com ones
(which have the CUPS support groups). Not a big issue, but still confusing!
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