Thunderbird Migration

[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