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

Ian Bell wrote:
Baron wrote:
Joerg Inscribed thus:

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:24:15 -0800) it happened Joerg
<invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <7pcro6Flh1U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

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 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.


LOL, had to laugh. I am right now struggling to change the permission of a folder in windows XP and I can tell you it is a real pain. In Linux, as root you just right click the folder and select properties. XP is real clunky in this repsect.


It's often also the software that's clunky. Thunderbird seems to require users to be logged in as administrator or it may say "cannot write email to file". Just had that happen. For some reason Microsoft does that right, never happened with any of their programs (so far).

<shaking head>

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