Has anyone successfully migrated thunderbird settings and mails from Windows to Linux?
I need to switch a machine from windows to linux without losing the settings and emails. Any ideas and tricks n tips?
thanks abhishek
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Abhishek Daga wrote:
Has anyone successfully migrated thunderbird settings and mails from Windows to Linux?
I need to switch a machine from windows to linux without losing the settings and emails. Any ideas and tricks n tips?
I have done it both ways. All you need to do is copy the mail folder to the new location. Better still if you copy the entire profile folder and then change the default profile number in thunderbird.
You will loose nothing, everything will be copied over.
Regards Saswata
thanks abhishek
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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. :-(
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