Easiest Way To Move Thunderbird Mail Folders To Another Computer?

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Mon Feb 23 23:58:23 UTC 2009


I have a .thunderbird email client folder on a Fedora 7 x86_64 system
that I need to move to a Fedora 10 x86 system. It occurs to me that if I
move this, and then start thunderbird on the new system, I might have
trouble because of 64-bit code. Also trouble with updating Enigmail. I
want to be sure I can sign and encrypt email messages. Am I better off
just moving

.thunderbird/[salt].default/Mail/*
.thunderbird/[salt].default/abook.mab

What file(s) store the email account information?

Or, to make a long story short, can I just tar up all of .thunderbird
and not worry about conflicts on the 32-bit system?

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA








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