Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2441 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/31/05, James Wright <jwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, I have dual boot for Windows XP and Suse 9.3.  In Windows I did
> not have a smtp server setup to send out mail.  I needed to bring the
> email I had stored in XP to Suse, as that is what I primarily use.  I
> use Thunderbird in both XP and Suse.  I accidently erased my account
> settings in XP.  I set up the exact same account, and even copied the
> folders into that accounts folder.  It did not bring up my mail.  The
> folders and email are still on my XP partition.  All I want is for the
> e-mail to be in Suse.  In Thunderbird you cannot import from
> Thunderbird.  Is there a way to bring a copy of the e-mail folders/files
> into Suse from the XP partition (which I can access through command line
> or konqueror).  I don't need them in XP, and don't want to fiddle around
> in XP trying to restore it, just to forward it to myself.  Thank you.

It "should" be simple...  Thunderbird stores all the email in it's own
folder.. .in Windows I think it's in "Documents and Settings"
somewhere... don't have a copy of WIndows anywhere to check.  In
Linux, it's in:

$HOME/.thunderbird/<some_scramble_of_text>.default/Mail

When I moved from Windows to Linux here at work (last year sometime) I
just copied the Mail folder from the Windows side to the Linux
.thunderbird directory and started up Thunderbird.  Worked fine.

C