Transferring mails from Thunderbird

[Mikko Silvennoinen]

Hi !

I once installed Thunderbird in a dualboot machine with XP and FC, and  
I  installed
Thunderbird profiles of both systems on a VFAT/FAT32 partition and was 
able to
use the same physical profile for both  XP and Fedora.
I just installed both first like everyone normally does,  and then there 
was in a earlier version of Thunderbird a menu command New Profile, 
which I used to define from where the profile would be read and after 
that copied the profile folder I want to use to VFAT in the just defined 
folder.
Now in the new Thunderbird version the information is situated in Fedora 
under the user's home directory at .thunderbird/profiles.ini
My profiles.ini looks like this:
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=5jygzv2e.default
Default=1

Editing it to look something like this (much of this is just guessing, 
you have to experiment and test it):
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1

[Profile0]
Name=Fedoraprofile
IsRelative=0
Path=/mnt/vfat/Thunderbird/Profiles/myusername/5jygzv2e.commonprofile
Default=1

[Profile1]
Name=XPprofile
IsRelative=0
Path=E:\Thunderbird\Profiles\myusername\5jygzv2e.commonprofile
Default=0

Mikko Silvennoinen

|Lord_Zoo| wrote:

>
> Well, in that case, yes, it probably do.
>
> I thought it was a clean install, my bad.
>
> Haven´t searched, but maybe there is a tool to do what you need.
>
> I know there are some for OE, but never looked for thunderbird.
>
> Sorry I couldn´t help you. :(
>
> Just, a silly question, did you tried to append those files? (I know 
> this could sound raw, but, well, sometimes the simplest things works. :))
>
> Stéphane Bruno escribió:
>
>> If  I already have mails in the new folder, will it not corrupt them ?
>>
>> |Lord_Zoo| wrote:
>>
>>> You can just copy and paste the folder with the mails into the 
>>> corresponding one in windows.
>>>
>>> Thunderbird keeps almos every configuration you made and take it 
>>> from there, so you don't have to reconfigure anything.
>>>
>>> You just have to copy the content of the profile folder into the one 
>>> created in windows.
>>>
>>> Hope it helps
>>>
>>> On
>>>
>>> Stéphane Bruno escribió:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I have just installed Mozilla Thunderbird on my Windows laptop and 
>>>> I want to transfer all mails I had in Mozilla Thunderbird on Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> I see that Thunderbird allows you to import only from Communicator 
>>>> 4.x, Eudora, Outlook Express and MS Outlook.
>>>>
>>>> Also, I do not see any Export functions in Thunderbird installed on 
>>>> my Linux computer.
>>>>
>>>> How can I do this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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