Thunderbird e-mail problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> 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
>
>   
    Siggy you HATE Thunderbird and have never used it! Your a poor 
person to give advice.

    To the person with problems putting an older file into a newer 
version. That should not be a problem IF you copy the old 
/home/name/.mozilla-thunderbird/ complete to the new computer at the 
same exact place. I have been doing this with thunderbird for several 
years. It works fine for me :-)

73 karl