thunderbird point to saved mail file

[Jamon Camisso]

On December 4, 2007 11:30:47 am chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> I had a my main hard drive on my main system go south. I'm going to
> be soliciting help with a backup system design. In the meantime I
> want to use my saved thunderbird mail file on my wife's machine. I am
> doing a yum install thunderbird right now. When thunderbird is
> installed and I fire it up, does anyone have any advice so that I can
> point to my saved mail file before thunderbird goes ahead and makes
> its own default one? I don't want the confusion of unneeded mail
> files.

It should be in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird or ~/.thunderbird (I don't recall 
how Fedora does it), you can copy the entire directory into place on 
the new machine. Make sure on the new machine that you've removed the 
existing .mozilla-thunderbird or .thunderbird directory so you don't 
get conflicting mailboxes.

For reference, Ubuntu uses .mozilla-thunderbird, as does Debian (even 
for Icedove, the unbranded Thunderbird). So if Fedora is 
using .thunderbird, you'll copy that into .mozilla-thunderbird on the 
new Ubuntu machine (if that's what you're using).

Jamon
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