On Thursday, 25 December 2025 04:06:07 Greenwich Mean Time Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > <<< SNIP >>> > > > > Thoughts? Questions? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > OK. I emerged Thunderbird. I figure it is likely to be the closest to > Seamonkey and someone mentioned that there was some nice changes to it > recently. Since I haven't seen it in a while, I figured I'd look at it > at least. Once I opened it, it looks a lot like Seamonkey once I set > the panes like I want. So I started trying to work with it. > > First, getting it to access my email was easy enough. It asked for my > name, email address and password. I entered it in and off it went. > Right off the bat, it got two new emails, Google confirming it was me on > something new. I was like, yeppie! Then I got the panes like I > wanted. It's different once you have emails to look at and off the home > screen. As I was looking around, mostly trying to find the Menu bar,
Right click at the top of the window where the menu bar usually is to select showing the menu at the top edge of the window all the time, or press F10 if you want to retain the hamburger menu, but want to view/access the old menu bar once. > I > found a import tool. It even listed Seamonkey to import from. I was > like, Oh yeah Baby. I went through that process and made sure to select > the right profile. I have two profiles on Seamonkey for when one > profile is giving me fits. Anyway, I just clicked through the import > screens and it worked at it for a little bit. Given the amount of > emails, I think it was to fast. Anyway, it wanted to restart so I did. > The only emails were the original two emails. No folders, filters or > anything that I can see and certainly no old emails. I've tried > adjusting View settings to make sure I have it set to see all emails. I > thought maybe I had it set to only view NEW emails. I have it set to all. > > I tried the import tool again, it added a new folder but that is it. > Still nothing of the old emails. Is there a manual way to copy the > emails, filters and such over? I think emails and filters is really all > I need. I think I can just copy the contents of the Mail folder but not > sure and no idea on how to copy the filters over. > > Anyone have knowledge on this? It looks like Thunderbird and Seamonkey > use the same type of system but don't want to screw it up, beyond repair > or something. LOL Oh, I installed thunderbird-146.0.1. > > Dale > > :-) :-) I can't recall if I ever used it and I don't know how it would work with Seamonkey. Some import tools can take a lot of time, especially if they are downloading messages from a public server and the server is throttling traffic. If you are looking at your locally stored message folders I think it should be instantaneous.
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