Hi, I had an unfortunate incident where the HDD went bad on a 10.2 home mailserver and document store. The OS was openSUSE(oS) 10.2 and I was using ext3. Thankfully I managed to get a copy of my /home directory to an external USB HDD just minutes before the machine HDD crashed. oS 11.0 had recently been released and so I replaced the dud HDD and loaded oS 11.0. I have copied the Maildir folders accross from the backup and am hoping there will be no major problems in setting up the caching IMAP mailserver. Before I do this though, there are so far two items I need to figure out, with your help: 1. The restoration of my email address book I would like to know what filename to look for on my backup that contains the Thunderbird email address book so that I can import this file from the backup into the new Thunderbird? 2. The restoration of message filter rules for incoming email as I have overr 200 different email folders and corresponding message rules. I generally receive a lot of email and have therefore setup mailfilters on Thunderbird to sort the email into its respective mail folder as it arrives in my Inbox. Can I copy this file in .thunderbird on my backup to the new .thunderbird and what is it called? Whatever else was in my old profile doesn't matter as I will create a new one ie spam filter. Is there anything else I have not thought of/missed ie I've thought of the Maildir, the address book, the filters as being the main items. I'd really appreciate some pointers here as I dislike using GMail or webmail. TIA Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org