[GRLUG] transfer Thunderbird settings from one Linux box to another

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:37:46PM -0400, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> On 5/30/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > I have googled far and wide - literally around the world :-) - for a
> > simple means (actually, *any* means) of transferring mail and settings
> > from Thunderbird on one Linux box to Thunderbird on another Linux box.
> > Have any of you done this?  If so, how?  I have found numerous howto's
> > for Windows.  There is even a GUI app for Windows to do this.  I have
> > found nothing for Linux.  Buehler?
> 
> scp -r ~/.mozilla/thunderbird me at mybox:~/.mozilla/
> 
> ?

Erm...yes.  That will copy from one machine to another.  I know how to
*copy* the data. When I create a Thunderbird account, however,
Thunderbird creates a "profile".  For example, 9abc5xyz.slt.  This is
not a user profile name I create.  How do I tell Thunderbird to use the
existing user profile that I have copied?
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john-thomas
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