mouss wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: <snip> >> The Thunderbird documentation says that it uses mbox files, but if so, >> where_are_they? Here's what it says: >> >>> http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/faq#import <snip> >>> (Inbox, Sent, etc.) is stored as two files — one with no extension >>> (e.g. INBOX), which is the mail file itself (in "mbox" format), and >>> one with an .msf extension (e.g. INBOX.msf), which is the index (Mail >>> Summary File) to the mail file. Tell the other program to import mail >>> from the file with no extension. <snip> >> >> and I cannot find the mbox files.... <snip> >> >> If someone on the list can point me to where the mbox files for >> Thunderbird on Linux are located, that will be much appreciated. I do >> not want to migrate from Evolution to Thunderbird, unless my email >> will continue to be in the mbox format, in case I eventually decide to >> migrate from Thunderbird, to another MUA. TIA! > > look under $HOME/.mozilla* (if you see a funny dirname, that name is a > profile id. chdir to ...). The data for Firefox is located in .mozilla The mbox files for Thunderbird are supposed to be in .thunderbird but I cannot find them there. > The simplest way to migrate is to setup a local IMAP server, create an > account on both evolution and TB. then copy your old mail to the imap > server from one mailer, and get it from imap to the second mailer. may > take time if you have a large mailbox, but this way you don't have to > convert files (or even find them). My email is on gmail.com IMAP and yes, I could start over with Thunderbird by downloading everything into Thunderbird from the IMAP server. The problem is that if I ever want to migrate from Thunderbird, I want to be sure that I know where the mbox files are located and at this time, I cannot find the mbox files. The documentation on the Thunderbird support site is not showing what I am seeing on my Desktop box. Possibly I should post this on a Thunderbird mailing list, because their documentation shows something that is not correct?