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On 20/12/09 12:55, Mail Lists wrote: o Using gmail - with imap - leaves the mail on gmail server. gmail with pop - removes the mail from gmail and stores wherever you told your mail client to store it - once you've done this - unless you store it on your own imap server then no other client will be able to see that pop mail. o so you should leave gmail accounts all set to imap - unless you want to pull the mail off gmail and store it. o your dovecot server is just like any other mail server - just set up a new IMAP account - use IP or (or hostname if your computers can see the host name). o each mail client you set up should have gmail imap your own imap as accounts. Then to move or copy mail just use mouse to drag or copy message(s) from gmail to your own imap account. Ok, I'm still digesting all of this and imap is becoming useable on this F-12 computer. I think I will switch the other one over too and see if I can get along with imap for a while. Don't know what Thunderbird is doing but sometimes it takes a long time to display a message and that can be maddening? Something to do with imap. And each time I select a directory the cursor runs that blue swirl for at least ten seconds, don't know what that means? Also I am trying to delete some of the many directories that were created initially, some like "spam" can't be deleted though. I have the mail filters putting stuff where I want it now. I usually keep all my mail sorted into directories and threaded and I'm finally getting that under control. The system is usable as it is, I don't know about some of the delays I'm seeing ... Anyway I've come this far and intend to give it a try. Making the dovecot server work will have to wait but I will get that under control also in time. Thanks for your patience and help. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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o Using gmail - with imap - leaves the mail on gmail server. gmail with pop - removes the mail from gmail and stores wherever you told your mail client to store it - once you've done this - unless you store it on your own imap server then no other client will be able to see that pop mail. o so you should leave gmail accounts all set to imap - unless you want to pull the mail off gmail and store it. o your dovecot server is just like any other mail server - just set up a new IMAP account - use IP or (or hostname if your computers can see the host name). o each mail client you set up should have gmail imap your own imap as accounts. Then to move or copy mail just use mouse to drag or copy message(s) from gmail to your own imap account. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 20/12/09 00:11, Mail Lists wrote: Slow it down a moment - lets get some concepts clear. gmail does 3 things for you .. 1) it receives your mail 2) it send mail on your behalf 3) it lets you store the mail it has received and read the mail that it has received for you. (1)& (2) are mail server functions. (3) is an imap server function. So when you set up an local imap server - you are setting up a server that allows you to store and read emails. This is (3). In thunderbird you 'add an account' and as I described in first email - set it up for your imap server. Once that is done you should have 2 accounts in thunderbird - gmail and the second one you created. In thunderbird you can drag or copy emails from gmail to your second account. Thats it. I am good through steps one, two, and three then on the F-12 server but the second part of my experimental effort is to move a message from the server to this compuster box 9 [192.168.1.109] on the wired LAN, connected through an Ethernet bridge, a part of a Buffalo wireless device that also ties these cvomputers to the router downstairs in the den. The LAN works well, no problems with it. Where I am having trouble is understanding how to set up Thunderbird accounts on this second [client [box9]] computer. I found an entry in the account setup GUI called "movemail" which sounds like the right place to enter the account info. I made an account there forthe server [F-12 box6] but have not been able to extract files from the server to the client. I suspect there may be something left undone in dovecot.conf, all I did there was un-comment a few items that obviously [to me] needed to be ... Part of my problem is that I have been trying to do a number of things at once, but have tried to block my thinking from the other stuff and concentrate on this. Other stuff; converting this box to F-12, and a new Laser printer that seems only to like Windows XP. I had Windows lurking on this computer but had never booted it or set it up for internet/LAN operation, Windows stuff is mostly beyond my comprehension and I had to figure how to set that up. Windows is not Linux, there's no help with it, not for me anyway! To add to the confusion it seems Windows had some effect on the router that disrupted LAN operation, a panic ensued since other family members notice disruption of their Mac boxes! Things are calm there now, the LAN is restored to normal. I offer that just as background information. My question is why can't I collect messages from the server on the client. I can "drag" items around on both computers but the client sees only what arrives via the gmail POP server. It has an imap account set up to point to the server [192.168.1.106 [box6]] in additon to it's original pop.gmail.com. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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Slow it down a moment - lets get some concepts clear. gmail does 3 things for you .. 1) it receives your mail 2) it send mail on your behalf 3) it lets you store the mail it has received and read the mail that it has received for you. (1) & (2) are mail server functions. (3) is an imap server function. So when you set up an local imap server - you are setting up a server that allows you to store and read emails. This is (3). In thunderbird you 'add an account' and as I described in first email - set it up for your imap server. Once that is done you should have 2 accounts in thunderbird - gmail and the second one you created. In thunderbird you can drag or copy emails from gmail to your second account. Thats it. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 19/12/09 17:04, Mike Cloaked wrote: So re-capping: 1) Set up local imap server - dovecot. 2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you have email - one account may be gmail, another your local dovecot imap, and you may have a yahoo account or others as well 3) Set up filter rules to copy mail from one or other of these servers to any of the others - each "account" set up in an email client points to a different server. I hope this helps I found that I could set up a "movemail" account in Thunderbird. I made one for "b...@192.168.1.106" which should be the computer with the server, clicked on "get mail" but nothing showed? Perhaps I missed something in dovecot config.? Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 19/12/09 17:08, Mike Cloaked wrote: Mike Cloaked wrote: This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e. make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on" to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service dovecot status") Sorry there was a typo in the above should have been "service dovecot start" and not "dovecot service start" !! The typo is no problem, I've already found service dovecto status/start/stop/. This is not clear to me yet, do I need dovecot on a second computer to set up a "local account?" Do I need a t'bird IMAP account on each computer? Confusion reigns at this point but fear not I will get it eventually. I am sending this from the F12 [dovecot]. Now to see if it will send. I collected your message so that much is working. We are having rain and snow in Virginia and my tiny ku band transmitter has trouble reaching the satellite. I'll try to send again later . Thanks. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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Mike Cloaked wrote: > > > This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have > set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) > connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account > pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e. > make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on" > to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service > dovecot status") > > Sorry there was a typo in the above should have been "service dovecot start" and not "dovecot service start" !! -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Saving-Tbird-e-mail-filestp26835345p26859026.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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Bob Goodwin-3 wrote: > > > Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file > and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although > I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and > shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps > but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL > internet service so the satellite providers have no competition. > > Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it > has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all, > probably ~7k messages in total. > > I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short > order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12 > computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope. > > What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP > messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email > program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored > in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via > my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite > reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!. > > Any help is appreciated. > > When you told gmail that you want to access it via imap then you presumably set up an imap gmail account in Thunderbird? What this then will do is to get the mail client (Thunderbird) to access gmail via the imap server held at gmail. This is not directly related to the dovecot imap server that you will have set up on your own machine. You can get Thunderbird to (separately) connect to you own imap server if you set up a "local" imap account pointing to 127.0.0.1 and have the dovecot service running locally (i.e. make sure that as root "dovecot service start", and "chkconfig dovecot on" to start it at boot - and check that the service is running by "service dovecot status") Now when you start Thunderbird with both the gmail imap account as well as the local imap account defined within Thunderbird then you will see two sets of mail but at this stage the only mail that you will see populated is the gmail account. i.e. Thunderbird as email client, is making connections to two independent imap servers - one at gmail and the other in your local machine. If you wish you can then copy mail from the gmail server to your own dovecot server, either manually or by setting up local filter rules within Thunderbird. You can set rules up to make copies of all mail at gmail onto your local imap server from within Thunderbird so that each time Thunderbird checks for new mail at gmail it will copy to your local server. You configure the rules in which ever way is most convenient for you. However once this is all done then you can start a different mail client (such as Evolution for example) and set up a local imap account which will then see any email that is already stored (and handled) by dovecot locally. You can of course also set it up to look at gmail and transfer files to the local imap if you wish - and then run either mail client whenever you feel like it, and use the best facilities of the one you are running at any time. So re-capping: 1) Set up local imap server - dovecot. 2) Set up email client eg Thunderbird and/or Evolution and/or kmail etc with each email client having an account pointing to any mail servers where you have email - one account may be gmail, another your local dovecot imap, and you may have a yahoo account or others as well 3) Set up filter rules to copy mail from one or other of these servers to any of the others - each "account" set up in an email client points to a different server. One possible use is when your isp runs only a pop3 mail server - you can get your Thunderbird to connect to that but then to copy mail from that server to your local server and then any other mail client can see the same emails by pointing them to the local dovecot imap server. I hope this helps -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Saving-Tbird-e-mail-filestp26835345p26859000.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 19/12/09 05:11, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the solution to this problem and a few others. Bob I dont have a walk-through howto so I will wing it .. I will assume for now that you will not be using or running your own hosted sendmail/postfix server (that is a little more involved) and all you want is an imap server to store local mail. 1) As root edit /etc/dovecot.conf and make sure you have a directive to use maildir and store it in your home directory under Maildir (or whatever you want to use) . snip . Best of luck. Look in /var/log/maillog for hints of any problems ... gene Thanks for your suggestions. I intend to try as you have outlined later this morning. Much appreciated. Bob Ok, I've installed Dovecot, made some changes to the config. file and started it. Then told gmail I wanted to "enable" IMAP. Although I have a "wildblue" address they gave up their mail servers and shunted everyone over to google! Not the best deal for users perhaps but I had no choice. Rural users are stuck without CATV or Telco DSL internet service so the satellite providers have no competition. Anyway now that I've done this the system is dumping everything it has on me, presently 4091 trash files! Hopefully that is all, probably ~7k messages in total. I still don't understand how this works but I will in pretty short order I guess? Where are these messages being saved? On my F-12 computer somewhere in Dovecot I hope. What do I have to configure in another computer to access the IMAP messages? Do I simply add an IMAP user to Thunderbird, the email program I have been using for some time. If the messages are stored in my computer, other computers need to look there and connect via my LAN [wired and wireless]. I'm already in over my head despite reading a lot of instructions on how to set this up!. Any help is appreciated. Bob . -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 18/12/09 20:23, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the solution to this problem and a few others. Bob I dont have a walk-through howto so I will wing it .. I will assume for now that you will not be using or running your own hosted sendmail/postfix server (that is a little more involved) and all you want is an imap server to store local mail. 1) As root edit /etc/dovecot.conf and make sure you have a directive to use maildir and store it in your home directory under Maildir (or whatever you want to use) e.g a line such as: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 2) service dovecot start 3) chkconfig dovecot on Then in your thunderbird just create a new account - server will be 127.0.0.1 (or whatever the IP or hostname on your local network the server is running on) user name (your login on the computer) connection security - STARTTLS Thats it. Create whatever folders you need and then use them. *** Minor Subtlety: You may find (likely will) that thunderbird will complain about the ssl certificate being self signed by an unknown authority - for now just tell it its ok - to remove this you'll need to create a better cert - which is signed by a known certificate authority. I suggest a free server certificate from startcom - which is probably your best bet. They are quick and easy and thunderbird and firefox have them listed already as an acceptable CA (certficate authority). There are others but most cost money - avoid things like cacert.org as they are not known by any browser. Go here: http://www.startssl.com/ Once you get the server certificate from them - you'll have 2 files - a key file (ssl.key) and a xxx.crt file. You'll ;likely need to convert them to pem format using something like openssl x509 -inform der -in xxx.crt -out xxx.pem The edit the dovecot.conf file again and look for the lines ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file ... Change the to point to your lovely new certificate and restart dovecot (service dovecot restart). Best of luck. Look in /var/log/maillog for hints of any problems ... gene Thanks for your suggestions. I intend to try as you have outlined later this morning. Much appreciated. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 12/18/2009 06:27 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: > >> Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by >> step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the >> solution to this problem and a few others. >> >> Bob >> >> > I dont have a walk-through howto so I will wing it .. I will assume for now that you will not be using or running your own hosted sendmail/postfix server (that is a little more involved) and all you want is an imap server to store local mail. 1) As root edit /etc/dovecot.conf and make sure you have a directive to use maildir and store it in your home directory under Maildir (or whatever you want to use) e.g a line such as: mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir 2) service dovecot start 3) chkconfig dovecot on Then in your thunderbird just create a new account - server will be 127.0.0.1 (or whatever the IP or hostname on your local network the server is running on) user name (your login on the computer) connection security - STARTTLS Thats it. Create whatever folders you need and then use them. *** Minor Subtlety: You may find (likely will) that thunderbird will complain about the ssl certificate being self signed by an unknown authority - for now just tell it its ok - to remove this you'll need to create a better cert - which is signed by a known certificate authority. I suggest a free server certificate from startcom - which is probably your best bet. They are quick and easy and thunderbird and firefox have them listed already as an acceptable CA (certficate authority). There are others but most cost money - avoid things like cacert.org as they are not known by any browser. Go here: http://www.startssl.com/ Once you get the server certificate from them - you'll have 2 files - a key file (ssl.key) and a xxx.crt file. You'll ;likely need to convert them to pem format using something like openssl x509 -inform der -in xxx.crt -out xxx.pem The edit the dovecot.conf file again and look for the lines ssl_cert_file and ssl_key_file ... Change the to point to your lovely new certificate and restart dovecot (service dovecot restart). Best of luck. Look in /var/log/maillog for hints of any problems ... gene -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 17/12/09 20:29, Mail Lists wrote: On 12/17/2009 04:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall Thunderbirds, WHile you can usually re-use your .thunderbird directory, one should never save any email in thunderbird local format in my view. I use TB coz I still thinks its the best of a bunch. A far, far better way than using local TB storage, is to simply run a local imap server (dovecot works really well) and use that. The major advantages are (i) You are now essentially indifferent to what mail client you use - and its simple quick to change between different mail clients. (ii) TB local storage (mbox format) was designed in the 70's ... and it has long since been replaced by far far safer, faster and superior formats. mbox format is a single large file - so if you delete a message in the middle, it doesn't actually delete it (too slow) until you "compress" it. Using a modern format (like maildir++) never needs compression and the risk of corruption is gone. [MS outmook uses a similar approach - and they have similar problems - corrupted mail files. There is a small cottage industry of repair programs which attempt to recover mails from a corrpted outlook.pst file! ] And remember to turn off GLODA too in tb 3 or you're in for all kinds of gigabyte files and slow to start and run tb. good luck! Ok, I give up! Where can I find instructions, hopefully step by step, to install IMAP with a local server? That sounds like the solution to this problem and a few others. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 12/17/2009 08:44 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote: > What is GLODA and where does one look to turn it off? > >> good luck! > Edit->Preferences->Advanced Tab Uncheck GLObal Indexer ... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 12/17/2009 08:29 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 12/17/2009 04:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: >> >>There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files >>when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this >>despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. >>Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and >>reinstall Thunderbirds, > > >WHile you can usually re-use your .thunderbird directory, one should > never save any email in thunderbird local format in my view. I use TB > coz I still thinks its the best of a bunch. > >A far, far better way than using local TB storage, is to simply run a > local imap server (dovecot works really well) and use that. The major > advantages are > > (i) You are now essentially indifferent to what mail client you use > - and its simple quick to change between different mail clients. > > (ii) TB local storage (mbox format) was designed in the 70's ... and > it has long since been replaced by far far safer, faster and superior > formats. > > mbox format is a single large file - so if you delete a message in > the middle, it doesn't actually delete it (too slow) until you > "compress" it. Using a modern format (like maildir++) never needs > compression and the risk of corruption is gone. > > >[MS outmook uses a similar approach - and they have similar problems > - corrupted mail files. There is a small cottage industry of repair > programs which attempt to recover mails from a corrpted outlook.pst file! ] > > And remember to turn off GLODA too in tb 3 or you're in for all kinds > of gigabyte files and slow to start and run tb. What is GLODA and where does one look to turn it off? > good luck! -- Kevin J. Cummings kjch...@rcn.com cummi...@kjchome.homeip.net cummi...@kjc386.framingham.ma.us Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
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On 12/17/2009 04:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: > >There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files >when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this >despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. >Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and >reinstall Thunderbirds, WHile you can usually re-use your .thunderbird directory, one should never save any email in thunderbird local format in my view. I use TB coz I still thinks its the best of a bunch. A far, far better way than using local TB storage, is to simply run a local imap server (dovecot works really well) and use that. The major advantages are (i) You are now essentially indifferent to what mail client you use - and its simple quick to change between different mail clients. (ii) TB local storage (mbox format) was designed in the 70's ... and it has long since been replaced by far far safer, faster and superior formats. mbox format is a single large file - so if you delete a message in the middle, it doesn't actually delete it (too slow) until you "compress" it. Using a modern format (like maildir++) never needs compression and the risk of corruption is gone. [MS outmook uses a similar approach - and they have similar problems - corrupted mail files. There is a small cottage industry of repair programs which attempt to recover mails from a corrpted outlook.pst file! ] And remember to turn off GLODA too in tb 3 or you're in for all kinds of gigabyte files and slow to start and run tb. good luck! -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:38 PM, DB wrote: > > Subject: > Saving Tbird e-mail files? - > From: > Bob Goodwin > Date: > Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:06 -0500 > To: > Fedora-list > > There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files > when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this You can also configure "account settings"/"local folders" to a particular directory. Then it isn't necessary to copy the .thunderbird directory. (You are actually copying over a ${RANDOM}.default directory and pointing "profiles.ini" to that random name. That's why you don't find your emails. You have a new random subdirectory. Not clever, in my estimation, but you can still configure your local folders. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?
Subject: Saving Tbird e-mail files? - From: Bob Goodwin Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:06 -0500 To: Fedora-list There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall Thunderbirds, I usually have two Fedora computers as is the case now. I would like to move the mail from the F-11 box to the new F-12 installation on a second computer. The Thunderbirds mail import function looks for something in "Communicator 4x" or some such thing but is very inflexible. "Communicator 4x" doesn't exist on any of my computers! Is there a known working procedure to accomplish this. I routinely transfer files between them via sftp and nfs. But those mail files defy all my attempts. Any help appreciated. Bob Hi Bob, I copy the .thunderbird folder from my home directory (and .mozilla for Firefox) when moving from desktop to laptop & new installations. Hope that helps Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?
On 12/17/2009 10:33 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: Subject: Saving Tbird e-mail files? - From: Bob Goodwin Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:06 -0500 To: Fedora-list There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall Thunderbirds, I usually have two Fedora computers as is the case now. I would like to move the mail from the F-11 box to the new F-12 installation on a second computer. The Thunderbirds mail import function looks for something in "Communicator 4x" or some such thing but is very inflexible. "Communicator 4x" doesn't exist on any of my computers! Is there a known working procedure to accomplish this. I routinely transfer files between them via sftp and nfs. But those mail files defy all my attempts. Any help appreciated. Bob Hi Bob, I copy the .thunderbird folder from my home directory (& the .mozilla for Firefox )to carry my settings from one machine/installation to another. It's worked fine for a couple of years now. Hope that helps Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?
On 12/17/2009 10:33 PM, fedora-list-requ...@redhat.com wrote: Subject: Saving Tbird e-mail files? - From: Bob Goodwin Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:33:06 -0500 To: Fedora-list There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall Thunderbirds, I usually have two Fedora computers as is the case now. I would like to move the mail from the F-11 box to the new F-12 installation on a second computer. The Thunderbirds mail import function looks for something in "Communicator 4x" or some such thing but is very inflexible. "Communicator 4x" doesn't exist on any of my computers! Is there a known working procedure to accomplish this. I routinely transfer files between them via sftp and nfs. But those mail files defy all my attempts. Any help appreciated. Bob Hi Bob, If you use Dolphin as file manager, turn on (under View) Show Hidden Files for your Home directory. Then you'll see .thunderbird which contains everything you ever did with TBird. copy the .thunderbird to your new machine/installation & - as the old english saying has it - "Bob's your uncle"! To do the same for Firefox, you'd need to copy the .mozilla directory. Hope that helps Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files? -
On 12/17/2009 03:33 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote: There must be a way to save/export/import Thunderbirds email files when going from F-11 to F-12! I have never been able to do this despite suggestions to simply move the Thunderbirds "Mail" files. Every six months or so I lose all the mail when I upgrade Fedora and reinstall Thunderbirds, I usually have two Fedora computers as is the case now. I would like to move the mail from the F-11 box to the new F-12 installation on a second computer. The Thunderbirds mail import function looks for something in "Communicator 4x" or some such thing but is very inflexible. "Communicator 4x" doesn't exist on any of my computers! Is there a known working procedure to accomplish this. I routinely transfer files between them via sftp and nfs. But those mail files defy all my attempts. Any help appreciated. Bob I just move the ~/.thunderbird directory from install to install. All the relevant files are there. -- Steve -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines