Re: OT: Old Mozilla to new Thunderbird, how to get emails over?

Joerg Inscribed thus:

Baron wrote:
Joerg Inscribed thus:

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:24:15 -0800) it happened Joerg
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Want to provide my wife with a new puter. Old one used integrated
Mozilla browser/email, new one Thunderbird.

For the life of me it will not read the copied email directories.
It has some dumbed-down importer but that neither shows Mozilla
nor does it allow a file import. It only looks for old email
programs on the new computer which naturally ain't there (duh!).

So, how does one get the whole directory chebang over? Old Mozilla
on old computer to new Thunderbird on new computer.

You avoid that shit by using Linux and 'pine' as email program.
Been using it for 12 years, still perfect.

Can't do that because that easily opens another can of worms. WLAN
driver not available, modem doesn't work, soundcards, etc. Plus I
don't like the way Linux handles directory writing privileges (or
rather, doesn't handle). I have Linux in a VM here on the PC, to try
out gEDA and stuff.

What ! I agree that in the old days that might have been true. But
no
longer. I run Open SuSE 11.1, just changed from 10.3, and everything
works just fine even the modem. Ok so its not a Win modem, but it
still works just fine.


I don't know about the gazillion distros and quite frankly don't want
to. It should be possible to pick one and work with it. However, I
have seen numerous cases where people either spent hours looking for a
work-around, hacking a driver or resigning to the fact that this, that
and the other thing couldn't be used anymore under Linux. Mostly this
was sound cards, modems and WLAN adaptors. Plus the occasional
not-so-usual USB gizmo.

It does help to be able to choose hardware that is well supported !

I don't understand what you mean about "the way Linux handles
directory writing privileges" though I do think that the concept of
ownership is a little difficult for someone that uses Windows.


What I mean is this: When trying gEDA and in particular gschem under
Ubuntu I could not write to library directories of that software. When
asking in a forum experienced Linux users and programmers told me "You
aren't supposed to do that". Which simply is not true for CAD.

I suspect that the problem with directories was down to the way Ubuntu
tries to control what a user is allowed to do. I tried gEDA for a
while and decided that Eagle was better, primarily because I was more
familiar with it. I don't recall that I had any problems with
manipulating library's or their contents.

But at the end of the day its down to "what works" for you ! At least
you tried with an open mind, which few new users actually do.

Many Windows users are really looking for a free look a like. I find
that "older" people are far more willing to learn something new and
generally have a much better experience because of it.

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Best Regards:
Baron.
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