Thunderbird Migration

[Jack Jackson]

Hi
I've moved my user account from one name to the other and would like to
move over my  mozilla thunderbird  accounts, address books and mail
filters ; I copied over .mozilla-thunderbird to no avail. What file does
Mozilla keep its filters in?






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[Kush Singh]

Unfortunately thunderbird in linux has less features than thunderbird in
windows (one can't import as many options as available under the windows
version)

WISHLIST--The developers need to be told to give an option for importing
mail, addressbook and settings from netscape/mozilla/outlook/outlook
express etc and thunderbird itself.

The mail is kept in .mozilla-thunderbird/somenumber.default/Mail
The addressbook is in .mozilla-thunderbird/somenumber.default/
The filters/settings should also be there somewhere  --make some new
filters and see which files get modified.
(ie sort by modification date)


Jack Jackson wrote:

> Hi
> I've moved my user account from one name to the other and would like
> to move over my  mozilla thunderbird  accounts, address books and mail
> filters ; I copied over .mozilla-thunderbird to no avail. What file
> does Mozilla keep its filters in?
>
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[Larry Grover]

Jack Jackson wrote:
> Hi
> I've moved my user account from one name to the other and would like to
> move over my  mozilla thunderbird  accounts, address books and mail
> filters ; I copied over .mozilla-thunderbird to no avail. What file does
> Mozilla keep its filters in?

On the system (5.10, breezy) I read my email on, the email filters
appear to be in:

~/.mozilla-thunderbird/*/Mail/<server name>/msgFilterRules.dat
~/.mozilla-thunderbird/*/ImapMail/<server name>/msgFilterRules.dat

These files are plain text, so you can easily read them and verify
that you have teh right files.

I think older versions of thunderbird stored these in ~/.thunderbird
(instead of ~/.mozilla-thunderbird), so you might check to make sure
you are copying *from* the correct location.

Also, you might find this link helpful:
http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile#move

Regards,
Larry

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