Hi All,
Last night I downloaded the latest security updates to my Centos 4 system, and rebooted afterwards.
This morning I wanted to check my mail, but when I opened Thunderbird, it asked me to set up a mail account.
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.
All of my folders and history had disappeared when the "new" account was created. I tried restoring from the tar archive but can still only access mails downloaded after recreating the account.
Any ideas on how to regain access to my mail archives?
TIA
ChrisG
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Hi All,
Last night I downloaded the latest security updates to my Centos 4 system, and rebooted afterwards.
This morning I wanted to check my mail, but when I opened Thunderbird, it asked me to set up a mail account.
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.
All of my folders and history had disappeared when the "new" account was created. I tried restoring from the tar archive but can still only access mails downloaded after recreating the account.
Any ideas on how to regain access to my mail archives?
TIA
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Hi,
I now also find that when I open firefox, all of my bookmarks are gone and the default homepage is no longer the Centos home page but http://www.google.co.za/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:o...
Regards
ChrisG
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 )
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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.
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.
Thanks Karanbir,
I will work on this when I get back from work tonight. There are two directories <something random>.default. When profiles.ini is set to use the one created when I recreated my mail connection, Thunderbird starts up with none of my history (as expected). When I edit profiles.ini to use the other (older) setup and start Thunderbird it starts the "wizard" to create a new connection - so clearly something has been corrupted in that setup. I will try to copy the important data from there to the new setup.
ChrisG
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
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Thanks to your advice I have been able to reciver all of my mail folders.
You are welcome.
I am not sure why an update would have caused the profiles and the paths to change and cause an issue. I've been using thunderbird for a long time and changed versions etc and never had this issue ( although, I do only stick with the version in the distro )
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Chris Geldenhuis wrote:
Thanks to your advice I have been able to reciver all of my mail folders.
You are welcome.
I am not sure why an update would have caused the profiles and the paths to change and cause an issue. I've been using thunderbird for a long time and changed versions etc and never had this issue ( although, I do only stick with the version in the distro )
Hi Karanbir,
Perhaps it was some other factor causing the problem with Thunderbird and it was a coincidence that it manifested at the same time as an update. I did not have the same problem on another CentOS 4 box updated at the same time. Just happy that I've got my history back.
Thanks again
ChrisG
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