[ubuntu-za] Migrating from Vista To Ubuntu

[Hannes Coetzee]

Hi Bruno

Another tip for the future - If you copy the contents of the 
C:\Documents and Settings\YourUser\....\Thunderbird\* folder in Windows 
(it contains your profile folder and profiles.ini) to 
/home/your-user-name/.mozilla-thunderbird/ in Ubuntu there will be no 
need to set up you mail accounts or even passwords. It's amazing how 
easy Thunderbird can be moved to Linux. :)

Regards
Hannes
> hello all
>
> just to tell that the migration from thunderbird in windows to ubuntu 
> was complete with no problems at all
>
> ii'm actually quite surprised on how easy it was once i knew how
>
> here's what i did in case someone had the same problem.
>
> once i ran thunderbird in windows, and imported my mails from outlook. i 
> went to the thunderbird directory in windows, inside thunderbird, i went 
> to account settings - local folders, and saw the directory where the 
> mails are kept.
>
> copyed the entire "mail" folder, installed thunderbird in ubuntu. found 
> where the mail is kept in same way, account settings- local folders. wen 
> there, and copied the contents from inside the mail folder from windows 
> to the mail folder inside ubuntu.
>
> launched thunderbird, and all my mails were there!
>
> thanks a lot to everyone who helped making this process really easy.
>
>
> about songbird, folowing the link that Lee Sharp gave, donwload it, and 
> installed with no problem at all 
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Songbird)
>
>
> and by the way, your article Schalk Neethling is going pretty good, glad 
> i could help. keep up the good work.
>
> regards
>
> Bruno Marques
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