On 01/02/2013 04:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
Why would you need to? If your mail store is IMAP, just let it rebuild.
I don't store email on the server, I store it locally.
I gave that up years ago when I ended up with more than one device. Too
much "did I get that email on my laptop or my desktop?" And now with
tablet, phone, laptop, desktop, and several kiosk machines around the
house (because how else do you watch Firefly whilst loading custom
hunting ammunition in the gun room?) and then the device proliferation
continues...
scp -rp ~/.thunderbird <target machine>
will shove your whole TB directory to the new box.
Doesn't work on Windows.
Why not? The directory may be different, but the philosophy should still
hold. Just install ssh/sshd from cygwin and you're set.
(The cheekier response is "stop using toy OS's". Windows is only
suitable for playing video games, and I'm looking forward to Steam's
release for Linux such that I can power on the Wintendo less and less. I
haven't done "real work" on Windows in 10 years. Too much UI struggle
and context switching because of lack of proper virtual desktops and
focus follows mouse has never quite worked correctly).
Anyhow, the TB documentation never says this.
TB has documentation? I can't say that I've ever read it. :-)
Nor does that help you if you just want to move account settings over
rather than the entire 10 years worth of mail. (I generally limit what I
put on my laptop, in case I lose it!)
Hence, my server-side email storage preference. I also have a script
which pulls the mailstore locally once a month, just in case the hosting
company has an issue, and then that lives on a machine with a RAID
mirror and monthly detached backup.
What is the rationale behind import/export of address books, and not
doing that for anything else?
I have no idea. I'm not sure "rationale" applies to many FLOSS projects
of appreciable size. In a cathedral model, you'd have that.. not so much
in the bazaar.
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