Henrik37 wrote:
On a 64 bit Dell Optiplex running 64 bit Win 7 Pro, I presently have SM
2.49.4 installed. I am not certain whether existing SM mail is 32 bit
or 64 bit as it has been in use for several years.
I want to change the company providing the mail service and change the
name of the mailbox. In the process, however, I want to keep all of the
existing inbox and sent mail files.
Can I simply copy the old inbox and sent mail files and paste these two
files into a new mail account I establish with the new mail provider?
Don Spam has good advice, but I can add a little bit further.
You're proposing doing more than one change, and that's not a problem,
but you need to go carefully, and not try to do everything all at once.
What I suggest starting with the structure of Seamonkey (current version
and 64 bit) before you start tinkering with data, especially server
settings. I also think you can get to what you need from Seamonkey
without digging in files and folders within your profile, other than
making backups.
1) Get a backup of your current profile. In Windows use the Explorer to
go to to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Seamonkey and copy the entire contents
somewhere else. That way, if there's problems, you still have all your
data that you can restore. Make sure that Seamonkey isn't open when you
do this.
2) Upgrade to a 64-bit install of 2.53.1 As Don Spam noted, chances are
high that you're running a 32-bit version of Seamonkey. 64-bit hasn't
been available as a supported version before the recent release of
2.53.1, a few weeks ago, and the only way of updating Seamonkey is to
download and install.
It's fine to move to a 64-bit version, but before you do that, you want
to uninstall your existing 32-bit version, first. Be aware also that
once your profile has been touched by 2.53.1, you can't downgrade to a
previous version, unless you also copy in your backups. That's
something that's been imposed by Firefox, that profiles are no longer
backward-compatible.
Make sure that everything is working correctly before going further than
this.
If you're changing your mail provider, that's fine, but it's best to do
that by adding a mailbox within your profile. Seamonkey has plenty of
capacity to do this -- in my own setups, I have nearly half a dozen mail
accounts (and different providers) all in the same profile.
3) For your new provider, set up a new account -- don't try to tinker
with any of the settings of your existing account. Go to File ->
Account -> New Account, and put in the credentials supplied by your new
mail provider. Chances are that the provider may presume that you want
IMAP (where mail is stored on the server) -- there's reasons to do that,
but for what you're doing, POP is fine. Get the new connection working,
where you can reliably send and receive mail.
4) Once you've set up the new account, you can move all the mail from
your old account to the new account, with drag-and-drop.
There a couple of variants here:
- I could make a case for leaving all your old mail in the old account.
Even if the provider isn't there anymore, you don't have to delete the
account, and you can leave all the mail where it is currently (and I'm
assuming POP).
- If you want a unified account with both new and old mail, yes, you can
drag it all into the new account, and then delete the old account entirely.
- If you set up the new account as IMAP, then drag-and-drop will cause
all the mail you copy to the new account to be mirrored to the server.
The main benefit of this is that if you want more than one device (e.g.,
an extra computer or a cell phone mail client), both can get to the same
mail, including folder layouts. However, depending on how much mail you
have, it's possible that the new provider might have a quota for you to
live within. Not everybody has Gmail's nearly-unlimited capacity.
Naming of the account is something that is minor. When you're viewing
the folders pane, right-click on the name of the account, select
Settings, and then you can change Account Name to whatever suits your
preferences.
Smith
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