[CentOS] RESTORING THUNDERBIRD FILES

Mon Mar 3 20:36:35 UTC 2008
Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org>

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.

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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq