transporting your evolution mail and address book to hardy heron

[Gabriel Noronha]

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 07:17 +1000, Leslie Gossner wrote:
> andremangan at gmail.com wrote:
> > I meant to say that it would assist in the transfer of emails stored 
> > in Evolution as well as the address book.
> >
> > 2008/4/27 <andremangan at gmail.com <mailto:andremangan at gmail.com>>:
> >
> >     For those doing a clean install of Hardy Heron. I have made a pdf
> >     file describing the procedure that will assist in accomplishing
> >     this task.
> >
> >     If you would like a copy just signal.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Andre
> >
> >
> Anyone know how to do this for Thunderbird?  I was thinking its clean 
> install time myself but getting everything transfered is holding me 
> back.  Kubuntu's been so stable i havent done a clean install before and 
> my MS products always failed badly before i reinstalled so i didnt get 
> to recover things like mail.
> 
> Leslie
> 

Thunderbird is very easy I your home folder their is
a .mozilla-thunderbird  folder (eg ~/.mozilla-thunderbird ) 
in that folder is more folders which contain your entire email profile 
Copy everything in there make sure thunderbird isn't running.

Reinstall ubuntu install thunderbird, run thunderbird once to create
the .mozilla-thunderbird folder then copy data from orginal thunderbird
install. 

This method works for moving thunderbird profiles between computers or
in my case off a windows install. 

Gabz.