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

[Michael Mol]

On 5/30/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> 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?

Nuke ~/.mozilla/thunderbird and replace it with the one you want?  I
believe the .slt directory is there as an anti-malware protection, so
that each installation would have a profile path not known to malware
authors.

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