can't restore Thunderbird from backup

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

I don't even know if anyone saw this post or not. I got no response. 
Anyway, I thought I'd post my fix. Thunderbird was defaulting to IMAP 
protocol. So, the ISP server kept overwriting my mail folders. I deleted 
.thunderbird, started up Thunderbird again, this time choosing POP 
protocol. I pointed TB to my old mail folder and all my old emails are 
showing up now! 

Thanks - or whatever. 

Chris 


[TLUG]: can't restore Thunderbird from backup writes: 

> I'm trying to restore my Thunderbird mail file from backup. 
> 
> I've done this in the past successfully several times. It's not working
> this time. 
> 
> I didn't take note of what version of Thunderbird was running before my
> latest hard drive crash. Maybe 2. 
> 
> The Thunderbird that installed with sudo apt-get install thunderbird is
> 3.1.7 
> 
> I tried installing an older version with sudo apt-get install
> thunderbird-2* and it rudely went ahead and installed Thunderbird 3
> again - only this time it took a half hour instead of a few minutes. 
> 
> I notice my saved mail has folders with .sbd extension but the new
> version saves folders with .msf extension. 
> 
> I would like to do two things: 
> 
> 1. Restore my old mail if possible, and
> 2. backup my mail properly for next time. 
> 
> chris at shiny-desktop:~$ cat /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS \n \l 
> 
> Any ideas? 
> 
> Chris
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