Programmer In Training wrote:
I've done some searching on the Thunderbird (TB) website and have posted
the question at one of their support forums, but I felt I should ask
here, too, just in case someone else has confronted this.
I only use POP3 to retrieve email (the merits of POP3 vs IMAP not
withstanding) and store locally so I have easy and offline access to it.
For about two years now I've been using XP to retrieve and check my
email, upgrading through various versions of TB without a problem. Now
I'm confronted with an issue I've not faced before (or attempted to
confront).
Transferring archives from one computer to another. I know where they
are kept on the XP machine, I /think/ I know where they are kept on my
FreeBSD box (nothing a little ls -a won't help me find). My question is
if this even possible since Mozilla Foundation went to using binary
archives for the email. I think it might be, but I'm not really wanting
to waste the time to only be frustrated in the end.
Has anyone attempted such a migration? Did you need any special tools?
If not, was it as simple as copy/pasting into the appropriate directory
structure? Or do I need to set up the accounts in TB on my FreeBSD box
/first/ then copy/paste?
TIA for reading and especially for helping (if you can)! (:
I made the same migration in the opposite direction. It's a straight
copy from one system to the other. I copied my FreeBSD Thunderbird
archives to Windows 7 Thunderbird on a dual boot system using a USB
memory key.
Copy the contents of
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\<aaaaaaaa>.default\Mail\Local
Folders\ to
/usr/home/<username>/.thunderbird/<aaaaaaaa>.default/Mail/Local Folders/
That's it.
Randy
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Randy Woy
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From Thunderbird on FreeBSD 7.1
"Believe me, they'll find a way. Governments loath people being free." -
Bill Nighy as Quentin in Pirate Radio
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