On 12/08/2004 08:33 PM, johnm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have just moved from ThunderBird on Windows98se to ThunderBird on
Ubuntu Linux. My only complaint is that while there is a way to move
the Address Book (export it), it appears that there is no way to move
all my old Tb/win emails to Linux. Other than that, I love the thing.
john mitchell
Actually this is not a problem -- if you're willing to manually edit the
files. Thunderbird uses the same UNIX mbox format that Mozilla does,
and that was originally popularized by the UNIX mail/Mail and rn/trn
programs.
Make sure that Thunderbird is closed. Open a terminal window and drill
down the directories to the Mail folder. (You can use this to find it:
find . -type d -name Mail -print )
Within that folder you'll recognize your account subfolders, and in there
you'll see your high-level mail folders. Just copy the files from your
Win98 box directly into this directory, or create a new directory ending
in .sbd (something like "winmail.sbd"), and copy the file there. Then
delete any *.msf files you find in there and in subdirectories. That's it.
--
Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
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