[opensuse] Migrating Mozilla Thunderbird Addressbook and message filters?
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
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
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?
IIRC address books are stored in abook-<n>.mab files in .thunderbird/<profile>
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?
this is a little more tricky... the file is called msgFilterRules.dat and there will be one for each mail folder under .thunderbird/<profile>/Mail/ and .thunderbird/<profile>/ImapMail There is a faint possibility it may not migrate well for some configuration changes and you may have to manually edit the file....the rule structure is pretty simple so it should not be a major problem if this is required.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj2JCcACgkQasN0sSnLmgIsgwCfRtEduwws6Lq0Yn0JK1jtSQ+o Ys4AoPMAeHi0cQr9O3pgyWosaFEvAJ9c =peEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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
Under your home directory, you should have something like this: ~/.mozilla/default/f6rgpr1p.slt. That last directory contains all your settings etc. and you want to copy them to the new drive. It's been a while since I've done this, but IIRC you simply create a new account with the same ID and then copy the files over. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote:
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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
Under your home directory, you should have something like this: ~/.mozilla/default/f6rgpr1p.slt. That last directory contains all your settings etc. and you want to copy them to the new drive. It's been a while since I've done this, but IIRC you simply create a new account with the same ID and then copy the files over.
.mozilla is where firefox keeps its settings , thunderbird normally keeps them in .thunderbird. (at least on my machines). However. this should work with thunderbird profiles if you are certain the rest of the original profile is good and you remember to edit .thunderbird/profiles.ini to point to the copied profile structure. Otherwise thunderbird will just create a new profile structure and ignore the copied one. If the original profile is corrupt (and this has happened to me) this can get messy. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj2fE0ACgkQasN0sSnLmgKnzgCg96hEddfvhFA7M3D6zRJ1q3vU qVsAoLOQ2o6R7gzWtzYXLz+V+CjXaWWX =miLm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
G T Smith wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
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 Under your home directory, you should have something like this: ~/.mozilla/default/f6rgpr1p.slt. That last directory contains all your settings etc. and you want to copy them to the new drive. It's been a while since I've done this, but IIRC you simply create a new account with the same ID and then copy the files over.
.mozilla is where firefox keeps its settings , thunderbird normally keeps them in .thunderbird. (at least on my machines).
However. this should work with thunderbird profiles if you are certain the rest of the original profile is good and you remember to edit .thunderbird/profiles.ini to point to the copied profile structure. Otherwise thunderbird will just create a new profile structure and ignore the copied one. If the original profile is corrupt (and this has happened to me) this can get messy.
Yes, Just like G.T. (not Grant) said. What you want to do is go ahead and start tbird on a new machine and let it create an empty account. You know what the pouy0786453 directory name from your old tbird install is. After tbird creates the new empty account, just edit ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini and change the new empty gobbly-gook directory name to your old gobbly-gook name and copy your old directory over under the new ~/.thunderbird directory and then thunderbird will use the old information for the new install. Since we are talking in such non-sensical technical terms, perhaps an example will help. I have: 22:16 alchemy~/.thunderbird> l total 20 drwx------ 3 david dcr 4096 2007-10-16 12:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x 82 david users 4096 2008-10-15 21:21 ../ drwx------ 8 david dcr 4096 2008-10-15 21:31 2k12pnl0.default/ -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 335 2007-10-16 12:05 appreg -rw-r--r-- 1 david dcr 94 2007-10-16 12:05 profiles.ini In my profiles.ini, you can see the path variable controls where thunderbird looks for data. 22:16 alchemy~/.thunderbird> cat profiles.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1 [Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=2k12pnl0.default When I change machines and want to bring my old stuff with me, I just copy the "2k12pnl0.default" directory and then edit the profiles.ini on the new machine to change the path= line to "2k12pnl0.default" Clear as mud... -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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