On 8/28/06, Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com wrote:
Has anyone successfully migrated thunderbird settings and mails from Windows to Linux?
Export your addressbook. That will get you a LDIF file.
Look in your Thunderbird Profile folder. That would be in the "Documents and Settings<login>\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles<some string>.default\Mail\Local Folders". Grab everything in that folder. To be safe, in case you have setup a nice complex set of folders, take the Mail folder itself.
In Linux, setup Thunderbird as usual. Import the LDIF file. And place the contents of the Mail folder in the corresponding folder ( .Thunderbird or .thunderbird, I can't recall) in your home directory. The directory structure is similar.
I don't know how to transfer filters and junk mail controls yet. :-(