Gary Dale wrote:
> Alexander Sack wrote:
>
>> Gary Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> The bug is still there. Please help! I'd love to switch from Mozilla to
>>> Mozilla-Thunderbird, but I can't get it to work with my existing
>>> e-mail.
>>> The import works but then I get:
>>>
>>> selected locale: en-US
>>> DOUBLE-CLICK: 250 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 8 --> -1
>>> /usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird/run-mozilla.sh: line 451: 29565
>>> Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
>>>
>>> when I try to start Thunderbird (of course, to see the message, I have
>>> to start it from a Konsole - otherwise the application just closes).
>>>
>>> My Mozilla Mail runs quite nicely. I have 5 active accounts that I have
>>> open normally, of which 3 get significant amounts of mail. I also
>>> have 4
>>> inactive accounts plus my "Local Folders". These accounts are all
>>> currently stored on a server via a symlink from my mail folder to the
>>> mail folder on the server (don't ask me why I just didn't link the
>>> entire Mozilla folder to the server). The Thunderbird conversion puts
>>> about 1.4G onto my local drive.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> what is the size of the mozilla profile? about the same size?
>>
>>
>>
>>> The only other problem I'm having is famd seems to go crazy and eats up
>>> resources, so I kill it after each reboot. If I don't, it quickly
>>> destabilizes my system, making it unusable within 30 minutes or so of
>>> startup. Once famd is killed however, my system is very stable.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm ... can't tell if this is the case. Anyway I suspect that maybe
>> link within your profile *might* be a problem. Have you tried to somehow
>> unwrap that link to the local harddisk (inside your profile) before
>> importing? Just to verify if the reason for your problems *is* or *is
>> not* the symlink. Please be careful and take extra care to backup your
>> mozilla profile and the mail boxes before doing this. I don't want be
>> responsible for any lost mail ;)
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Alexander
>>
>>
>>
>
> Nope. I created a "mail" directory, copied my files to it, deleted the
> symlink, then renamed "mail" to "Mail". I verified that mozilla mail
> could read access my mail, then installed Thunderbird. I got exactly
> the same results.
>
> This is exactly what I would have expected, as the conversion
> completes successfully. The problem is that Thunderbird then refuses
> to start. However, clearly something about the conversion is the key,
> since I can install and start Thunderbird provided that I don't do a
> conversion of my mozilla mail files.
>
> However, this is not a solution as the "import" function within
> Thunderbird doesn't allow me to import all my mozilla mail files after
> the fact. This does seem like a strange omission, since clearly the
> capability of importing a mozilla mail address book, for example, is
> there. Call me lazy, but the prospect of setting up everything
> manually through exports and imports is too much work right now -
> especially since I have no guarantee that it will work any better than
> the automatic import. :)
>
>
Can you please try if it works with upstream thunderbird? If not ....
you can try to copy the mail folders manually to accounts created in a
clean thunderbird install. Please keep backed up in such a way that we
can reproduce it again if we found a workaround eventually.
Thanks
Alexander
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