Thunderbird e-mail problem

[Ryan Cavicchioni]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 05:49:29AM +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.

I believe that the Thunderbird mailbox files are in mbox format. You
could use any mail reader that supports it to salvage the data.

Have you tried moving only the mbox files and not the index files
(*.msf)?

Regards,
  -- Ryan Cavicchioni