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[Derek Broughton]

Nikolai wrote:

> K S Balaji wrote:
>> 
>> It was good to be using Ubuntu for about a month.  I lost my Thunderbird
>> mails as I had to reinstall Ubuntu.  Even though I had a copy of the
>> mails on CD, I could not restore them in the new installation even after
>> going through various How Tos.
> 
> I don't know what exactly your problem was but I have managed just
> recently to transfer my wife's mail from a Windows installation to
> Ubuntu without any hassle. It was matter of copying an Inbox file from
> Windows and then loading it in Thunderbird on Ubuntu. Simple as that.

For a while I ran a dual-boot system with Thunderbird on both the Windows &
Debian (at the time) partitions.  The Thunderbird in Debian actually read
the messages from the Windows-Thunderbird directly off the VFAT partition,
so I shared the whole local mail store.
-- 
derek