thunderbird point to saved mail file

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

Jamon Camisso writes: 

> 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

So replace this directory with my mail file, or copy my mail file into that 
directory? 

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).

No - it's my wife's fedora machine, not my daughter's new ubuntu 
installation (that's the one I'm trying to get gtkpod working on). 

Chris
> 
> Jamon
 

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