On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:39:49 GMT Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > [[[SNIP]]] > > > > Has anyone moved from Seamonkey to Thunderbird recently? Anyone know of > > a howto that I missed? Anyone know of a reason this just won't work? > > > > Thanks much. > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > After no one replied, I figured either no one ever did this or it must > be really simple and easy. I took the plunge and started up > Thunderbird. The first thing that loaded up was a question on if I'd > like to import my old Seamonkey emails. I answered Yes and it did its > thing. Given the huge number of emails I have going back over a decade, > it took a while.
You may have been able to achieve the same by mapping T'bird's paths for mail folders to Seamonkey's, but I don't use either so I don't know if this would have been a straight forward exercise. > I will add this for future reference. Before asking it to download new > messages from your email provider, click through each and every folder > and make sure the messages show up in the listing. I didn't do that at > first and when it checked in and tried to download the new messages, it > gave a error and left it in the default folder. Also, when you do that, > expect some messages to be marked as unread. I just right clicked the > folder and told it to mark all as read, since I already have. I'm not > sure but I think it may do that on messages that were deleted and were > downloaded again or something. It could be something else tho. I don't > generally delete messages. > > I would think this would work the same on any Linux distro. May even > work on windows as well. > > Now to figure out how to tell Thunderbird to open links in Firefox and > which profile as well. It wants to open in Seamonkey and picks a > profile that is already open which gives the usual error about it being > in use. Hmmmmm. > > Dale > > :-) :-) This should help: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird -- Regards, Mick
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