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On 09/08/2009 04:46 AM, Sergey Rudchenko wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4AA619FC.90802@gmail.com" type="cite">On
07.09.2009 3:31, Robert L Cochran wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">The worst problem for me (it forced me to
take out the hard drive that 12 Alpha is installed on and replace it
with the one for Fedora 11) is that for some reason, Thunderbird on 12
Alpha won't recognize my email files in the .thunderbird directory that
I had tarred up in Fedora 11 and then transferred to the 12 system.
That is, I tarred up everything in my Fedora 11 .thunderbird directory
and untarred it in my new home directory with the Fedora 12 box. I've
done this successfully so many times while traveling, on other Fedora
releases, that I'm surprised it doesn't 'just work'. Every time I start
Thunderbird, it doesn't seem to notice there are mail folders in the
.thunderbird directory and insists on launching an "email setup"
wizard. I do have more than 1 Gb of email data...maybe this is
affecting the Fedora 12 version of Thunderbird.
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Do you have a folder like ~/.shredder? Pre-release thunderbird 3.0 is
called "Shredder" IIRC.
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If yes, backup your ~/.thuderbird and try to make a ~/.shredder
symlink.
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--
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Best regards,
<br>
Sergey Rudchenko
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Thank you for your help. "Shredder" is what the Mozilla people call
their alpha releases of Thunderbird. We are using Thunderbird 3.0b3
which is a beta release. This same version works fine in Fedora 11. It
was simply rebuilt for Fedora 12.<br>
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After more experimenting and trying to get Thunderbird to see my
existing profile data and mail folders, I am starting to realize my
problem might be SELinux-related. I had moved my mail folders (as a
tarball) to the Fedora 12 system. I am wondering if tar isn't writing
the right sort of SELinux security contexts to the profile folder files
when I untar the tarball. The system is showing numerous SELinux
denials, and I'm not too sure how these effect Thunderbird, but I am
sure that untarring my profile folders to the .thunderbird directory
should be sufficient for my mail folders "seen" by Thunderbird when it
starts up.<br>
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I'll report this as a bug hopefully tomorrow. It's pretty late for me
here on the East Coast of the USA, and I'm no longer young.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
<br>
Bob Cochran<br>
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