FYI moving Tbird emails to Tbird emails

Moving emails from machine A to machine B

[henry0]

I just spent two hours trying to figure it out!
Thunderbird does not allow for easy export from a system A to a system B.
I thought I'll share my findings with you.
You want to move your existing emails and dir from an existing machine to a new one.
from the old machine go to start and run
enter:
%APPDATA% click OK
from there navigate to thunderbird find Profiles
within is a dir ending by "default" open it
copy the dir Mail
Go to the new machine, again start and run etc...
rename mail as Mail_old, and then paste the copied dir
Done!
Hope it could help.
Don't try what I did first: copying the whole dir profiles that did not work.

[caribguy]

The prefs.js file tells you all you need to know about the various accounts and mailbox locations. We've been storing mailboxes on a Samba server, so that they can be accessed from any machine on the LAN.

[dreamcatcher]

I just use MozBackup. I always use it to transfer all e-mails to my travel laptop before travelling, then back again when I get back.

Easy and works like a charm.

dc

[henry0]

Hmm, looks like I took the hard way.
Nevertheless it worked for me; G should have given me more choices.
Well, so the way one enters the search still leads to many different options.

[Leosghost]

Why not use thunderbird as a portable app ( I've done so for the last 3 years ) ..keep it on a key along with other portable apps..saves a lot of hassle and is always with you ..and you can move between windows machines and linux( it works wonderfully well under wine ..as do most portable apps ) ...

BTW dont forget if you move the key and the emails between linux and windows machines you also should use a portable AV to run in the background also via wine when thunderbird is running on Linux..

back up the key once a day to another key ..the same way as you of course do daily backups of your hard drives :)

[henry0]

Ahhh, an interesting option!