I've done some searching on the Thunderbird (TB) website and have posted the question at one of their support forums, but I felt I should ask here, too, just in case someone else has confronted this.
I only use POP3 to retrieve email (the merits of POP3 vs IMAP not withstanding) and store locally so I have easy and offline access to it. For about two years now I've been using XP to retrieve and check my email, upgrading through various versions of TB without a problem. Now I'm confronted with an issue I've not faced before (or attempted to confront). Transferring archives from one computer to another. I know where they are kept on the XP machine, I /think/ I know where they are kept on my FreeBSD box (nothing a little ls -a won't help me find). My question is if this even possible since Mozilla Foundation went to using binary archives for the email. I think it might be, but I'm not really wanting to waste the time to only be frustrated in the end. Has anyone attempted such a migration? Did you need any special tools? If not, was it as simple as copy/pasting into the appropriate directory structure? Or do I need to set up the accounts in TB on my FreeBSD box /first/ then copy/paste? TIA for reading and especially for helping (if you can)! (: -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
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