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