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

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:50:15PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> On 5/30/07, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> > 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.

I copied the directory to the new box and ran Thunderbird (well, I run
Debian, so "Icedove") for the first time.  It must look for an existing
profile and use it if available.  All this time and it was this easy.
It did not prompt me for new user information and all my mail and
settings are there.  Rock.

As soon as I read your reply it seemed obvious.  I run Linux.  My
wife's email info would not reside in my home directory so why would
there be two profiles?  (There would not be.)

Thank you!
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john-thomas
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