Thunderbird e-mail problem

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:49 +1000, GaryT wrote:
> Earlier this year I reinstalled Ubuntu and for email simply located the
> backed up T-bird files in an appropriate directory. When T-bird was
> loaded it adopted the files and beauty, all e-mail was restored.
> 
> Recently I did it again, BUT THE DEFAULT T-BIRD was a new version.
> It didn't adopt the old files. Apparently if you load it over the old
> version the files are adopted and the old version executables are
> deleted, but... obviously you have to know that in advance.
> 
> Does anyone know of a utility to manually convert the files from ver
> 2.0.0.19 to version 2.0.0.22?
> 
> OR
> 
> where to find the earlier version so that I can at least salvage all the
> family photos that have arrived attached to messages.
> 
> Help on the Mozilla pages is limited.

This won't help you either, but I refrain from using any MUA that
has it's own ideas of how email has to be stored.

Choose a MUA that can handle any standard mailbox format, if it
wants to "import" mail, simply trash the MUA instead of making
your mail inaccessible to other programs.

my 2¢
  Siggy

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