Saving Tbird e-mail files? -

2009-12-17 Thread Bob Goodwin
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 Thunde

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2009-12-17 Thread Steven Stern
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 upgrad

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?

2009-12-17 Thread DB
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

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?

2009-12-17 Thread DB
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

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?

2009-12-17 Thread DB
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

Re: Saving Tbird e-mail files?

2009-12-17 Thread Bruce Korb
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 g

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2009-12-17 Thread Mail Lists
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 th

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2009-12-17 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
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" f

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2009-12-17 Thread Mail Lists
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

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2009-12-18 Thread Bob Goodwin
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.

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2009-12-18 Thread Mail Lists
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 >> >> >

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2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
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 thi

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2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
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

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2009-12-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
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

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2009-12-19 Thread Mike Cloaked
o 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-lis

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2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
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

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2009-12-19 Thread Bob Goodwin
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

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2009-12-19 Thread Mail Lists
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 fun

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2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
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 receive

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2009-12-20 Thread Mail Lists
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 m

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2009-12-20 Thread Bob Goodwin
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 oth