Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
This morning I wanted to check my mail, but when I opened Thunderbird, it asked me to set up a mail account.
are you sure you didnt install a thunderbird / firefox from outside the yum repo's ?
I saved the contents of the previous .thunderbird file structure with tar and created a new mail account with the same details (name, isp, pasword, servers etc.) as the previous account.
you should be able to untar the .thunderbird tarball into another place, and then basically just move the email files into place in the current ~/.thunderbird
remember to note where the email is expected, and there will be files per folder and an index for each one called the <foldername>.msf - you want to get all those over to the new instance.
Also, you might need to rename of the files if you now have new folders with the same name ( eg. inbox )
now having said that, before you do anything, check ~/.thunderbird for more than 1 directory called <something random>.default, and check the profiles.ini file in the same place. its possible you are just looking at a new profile, and switching over to the older profile will be all you need.
And then you can work out howto get emails from one side to the other.
Hi Karanbir,
Thanks to your advice I have been able to reciver all of my mail folders.
ChrisG