thunderbird point to saved mail file

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:30:47AM -0500, 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. 

Well when you fix your machine, make sure you use at least software
raid1.  Drives fail, but they are also amazingly cheap, and raid1 saves
you a lot of hazzle when a drive does fail.

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Len Sorensen
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