Joe Hart wrote: > > This is fixable. First, find the path that icedove is using for it's > mail. On my system it is .mozilla-thunderbird, but it might not be on > yours.
On my system also, all the email is stored in ~/.mozilla-thunderbird [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 93 4972 12:06 PM $ls -al .mozilla-thunderbird/ total 36 drwxr-xr-x 3 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 12:06 ./ drwxr-xr-x 183 rajulocal rajulocal 20480 2007-04-02 12:06 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 1046 2004-10-06 17:51 appreg drwx------ 7 rajulocal rajulocal 4096 2007-04-02 11:08 bafaowsk.default/ -rw-r--r-- 1 rajulocal rajulocal 104 2006-03-15 13:08 profiles.ini > > When you find the right directory, you'll see that there's a file inside > called profiles.ini You can edit that file and point Icedove to use any > directory. Take a look at my profiles.ini for an example. > > #Begin file > [General] > StartWithLastProfile=1 > > [Profile0] > Name=default > IsRelative=0 > Path=/media/share/Mail > #end file > > See that my mail is stored in /media/share/Mail. Change that to > wherever you have the Mail folder and Icedove should see it. > My profiles.ini file is $cat .mozilla-thunderbird/profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=bafaowsk.default Default=1 Looks correct to me except the "Default=1" line. What does it do? raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]