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Upgrading from Mozilla Mail to Thunderbird

I finally got around to upgrading my Mozilla Mail installation to the new Thunderbird client. Unfortunatly, it went less smoothly than I have hoped but it worked. At first, I followed the instructions provided by David Tenser. Unfortunatly, on the Linux side I ran across a rather nasty bug which basically crashed my Thunderbird install after conversion from Mozilla Suite (this is a known bug). Instead I did the following:

1. Created a blank install of Thunderbird on Linux.
2. Added my two accounts and set Thunderbird to store their messages in separate folders.
3. Copied over the old Mozilla mail into a new folder.
4. In Thunderbird, went into account properties and manually changed the location of each folder to the old Mozilla mail folders.

Fortunatly, Thunderbird and Mozilla use the same “mbox” format for storing email so that worked. However, I did lose all my settings which wasn’t such big deal. But don’t try it at home

P.S. In the process of installing Thunderbird, I also discovered that my Windows partition has failed:

Unfortunatly, it seems that my laptop’s hard drive is in the process of gracefully crashing, so I ordered a new one. For some strange reason the Linux portion of the drive is working perfectly fine. Go figure.

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