Installed Fedora 20 from Fedora 18. fresh install.
Moved old email Mail Folder from F18 .thunderbird and puts all of the contents fom old email into F20 .thunderbird.
I can see from File Manager that the OLD Emails are in the .thunderbird/Mail folder, but How do I get Thunderbird to display those old emails ?
I'm connected to my ISP and can download new Emails.
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Installed Fedora 20 from Fedora 18. fresh install.
Moved old email Mail Folder from F18 .thunderbird and puts all of the contents fom old email into F20 .thunderbird.
I can see from File Manager that the OLD Emails are in the .thunderbird/Mail folder, but How do I get Thunderbird to display those old emails ?
I'm connected to my ISP and can download new Emails.
you need to change profile.ini accordingly
regards
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Installed Fedora 20 from Fedora 18. fresh install.
Moved old email Mail Folder from F18 .thunderbird and puts all of the contents fom old email into F20 .thunderbird.
I can see from File Manager that the OLD Emails are in the .thunderbird/Mail folder, but How do I get Thunderbird to display those old emails ?
I'm connected to my ISP and can download new Emails.
you need to change profile.ini accordingly
regards
accordingly HOW !! ? An What ?
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
accordingly HOW !! ? An What ?
go to ur ~/.thunderbird directory, two file should be there [1],[2]
[1] sometext.default [2] profiles.ini
I've these two files in my home folder
1, 4obtszbr.default 2, profiles.ini
following is the content of the profile.ini ( it can be opened in gedit or vi,nano)
[General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=4obtszbr.default
you see that last line, it should be matching to your profile folder ( here it is "4obtszbr.default" )
are you getting what I mean to say , if not then please post out put of following 2 commands
[1] ls -l ~/.thunderbird
[2] cat ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
Regards
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
accordingly HOW !! ? An What ?
go to ur ~/.thunderbird directory, two file should be there [1],[2]
[1] sometext.default [2] profiles.ini
I've these two files in my home folder
1, 4obtszbr.default 2, profiles.ini
following is the content of the profile.ini ( it can be opened in gedit or vi,nano)
[General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=4obtszbr.default
you see that last line, it should be matching to your profile folder ( here it is "4obtszbr.default" )
are you getting what I mean to say , if not then please post out put of following 2 commands
[1] ls -l ~/.thunderbird
[2] cat ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
Regards
ls -l ~/.thunderbird
drwx------. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 22 17:28 Crash Reports drwx------. 5 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 25 05:27 kqe760mh.default -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 94 Apr 22 17:28 profiles.ini
Below is the profile.ini files
.thunderbird/profies.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=kqe760mh.default
Below is the /Mail folder , the "mail.comcast-1.net" has the new messages which I can read.
The "mail.comcast.net" folder has the old emails they are the ones I bought over from F18, and Thunderbird IS NOT Displaying Those so I can not read them.
.thunderbird/kqe760mh.default/Mail/
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
Am 25.04.2014 17:01, schrieb Mickey:
ls -l ~/.thunderbird
drwx------. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 22 17:28 Crash Reports drwx------. 5 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 25 05:27 kqe760mh.default -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 94 Apr 22 17:28 profiles.ini
Below is the profile.ini files
.thunderbird/profies.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=kqe760mh.default
Below is the /Mail folder , the "mail.comcast-1.net" has the new messages which I can read.
The "mail.comcast.net" folder has the old emails they are the ones I bought over from F18, and Thunderbird IS NOT Displaying Those so I can not read them.
.thunderbird/kqe760mh.default/Mail/
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
Just a shot in the dark (I had a similar problem when migrating TB from one install to another): What about permissions of the directory that you brought over from F18? Perhaps TB can't access it. Klaus
On 04/25/2014 11:14 AM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
Am 25.04.2014 17:01, schrieb Mickey:
ls -l ~/.thunderbird
drwx------. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 22 17:28 Crash Reports drwx------. 5 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 25 05:27 kqe760mh.default -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 94 Apr 22 17:28 profiles.ini
Below is the profile.ini files
.thunderbird/profies.ini [General] StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0] Name=default IsRelative=1 Path=kqe760mh.default
Below is the /Mail folder , the "mail.comcast-1.net" has the new messages which I can read.
The "mail.comcast.net" folder has the old emails they are the ones I bought over from F18, and Thunderbird IS NOT Displaying Those so I can not read them.
.thunderbird/kqe760mh.default/Mail/
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
Just a shot in the dark (I had a similar problem when migrating TB from one install to another): What about permissions of the directory that you brought over from F18? Perhaps TB can't access it. Klaus
kqe760mh.default]$ ls -l total 21940 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 mickey mickey 44294 Apr 25 11:36 abook.mab -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 524288 Apr 12 00:16 addons.sqlite drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 22 17:45 Backup -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 524288 Sep 1 2012 blist.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 81791 Apr 24 17:48 blocklist.xml -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 1 Nov 12 13:12 _CACHE_CLEAN_ -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 180224 Apr 24 21:38 cert8.db -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 98304 Jun 15 2012 chromeappsstore.sqlite -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 159 Apr 22 17:46 compatibility.ini -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 229376 Nov 3 11:57 content-prefs.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 524288 Apr 24 21:38 cookies.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 32768 Apr 25 05:21 cookies.sqlite-shm -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 32824 Apr 25 05:21 cookies.sqlite-wal -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 36 Apr 23 18:21 directoryTree.json -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 98304 Apr 22 19:28 downloads.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 214 Jan 11 23:29 extensions.ini -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 458752 Apr 11 13:15 extensions.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 328272 Apr 11 13:15 extensions.sqlite-journal -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 97 Apr 24 21:38 folderTree.json -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 196608 Nov 12 18:09 formhistory.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 1245184 Oct 4 2013 global-messages-db.sqlite -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 16699 Apr 24 20:00 history.mab -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 16384 Apr 24 21:38 key3.db -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 16752 Apr 25 05:27 localstore.rdf lrwxrwxrwx. 1 mickey mickey 16 Apr 25 05:21 lock -> 127.0.0.1:+31538 drwxrwxr-x. 7 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 24 19:35 Mail -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 482 Nov 15 2011 mailViews.dat -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 4088 Nov 23 2012 mimeTypes.rdf drwx------. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 22 17:28 minidumps -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 11023 Apr 25 11:37 panacea.dat -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 65536 Apr 24 17:48 permissions.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 10485760 Apr 22 20:28 places.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 32768 Apr 25 05:21 places.sqlite-shm -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 0 Apr 25 05:21 places.sqlite-wal -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 344 Apr 22 17:48 pluginreg.dat -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 16697 Jan 18 2012 prefs-1.js -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 16714 Mar 13 2012 prefs-2.js -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 17333 Aug 13 2012 prefs-3.js -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 0 Nov 17 2012 prefs-4.js -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 8030 Apr 24 20:35 prefs.js -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 9764 Apr 25 05:25 search.json -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 2 Jul 25 2012 search-metadata.json -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 65536 Feb 12 2012 search.sqlite -rw-------. 1 mickey mickey 16384 Nov 15 2011 secmod.db -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 383 Apr 25 05:26 session.json -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 327680 Dec 19 18:52 signons.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 1244535 Apr 11 12:33 TestPilotErrorLog.log -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 19789 Apr 24 19:43 training.dat -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 8 Apr 24 19:43 traits.dat -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 5242880 Nov 15 2011 urlclassifier3.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 24 Dec 25 2011 urlclassifier.pset -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 10 Dec 31 2012 virtualFolders-1.dat -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 10 Mar 14 2013 virtualFolders-2.dat -rw-rw-r--. 1 mickey mickey 10 Apr 24 21:38 virtualFolders.dat -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 98304 Nov 12 13:21 webappsstore.sqlite -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 32768 Apr 25 05:21 webappsstore.sqlite-shm -rw-r--r--. 1 mickey mickey 0 Apr 25 05:21 webappsstore.sqlite-wal
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
it looks ok, is there any permission issues on mail folder or its contents , ...?
will you check that ...??
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
it looks ok, is there any permission issues on mail folder or its contents , ...?
will you check that ...??
drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 7 12:01 Local Folders drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 17:59 Local Folders-1 drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 18:00 mail.comcast-1.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 20 15:13 mail.comcast.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Nov 14 2011 smart mailboxes
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:36 -0400, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
it looks ok, is there any permission issues on mail folder or its contents , ...?
will you check that ...??
drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 7 12:01 Local Folders drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 17:59 Local Folders-1 drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 18:00 mail.comcast-1.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 20 15:13 mail.comcast.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Nov 14 2011 smart mailboxes
SELinux?
ls -laZ ~/.thunderbird
On 04/25/2014 11:43 AM, Arthur Dent wrote:
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 11:36 -0400, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
it looks ok, is there any permission issues on mail folder or its contents , ...?
will you check that ...??
drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 7 12:01 Local Folders drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 17:59 Local Folders-1 drwxr-xr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 23 18:00 mail.comcast-1.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Apr 20 15:13 mail.comcast.net drwxrwxr-x. 2 mickey mickey 4096 Nov 14 2011 smart mailboxes
SELinux?
ls -laZ ~/.thunderbird
ls -laZ ~/.thunderbird drwx------. mickey mickey unconfined_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 . drwx------. mickey mickey unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_dir_t:s0 .. drwx------. mickey mickey unconfined_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 Crash Reports drwx------. mickey mickey unconfined_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 kqe760mh.default -rw-rw-r--. mickey mickey unconfined_u:object_r:mozilla_home_t:s0 profiles.ini
Thunderbird is not having any problems of reading new wmails
" mail.comcast-1.net"
it is having problems of reading or displaying old emails in
"mail.comcast.net"
On 04/25/2014 11:36 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
did you try under edit-account settings , comcast account, click on server settings. down at the bottom, point it to you mail.comcast.net folder
On 04/25/2014 12:00 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:36 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote: > On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
did you try under edit-account settings , comcast account, click on server settings. down at the bottom, point it to you mail.comcast.net folder
Under accountsettings in Server setting I changed it to read the "mail.comcast.net" and now I can read the old Emails .
Why does it not display both Email files on the left column of the Thunderbird Browser ?
I guess I will just delete what few emails i have in ;
"mail.comcast-1.net" and use the "mail.comcast.net"
Thanks guys for your Help.
Hi Mickey, Just my 2 cents worth, which may or may not help. As I understand the way Thunderbird works, the mail files in your profile directory that Thunderbird uses are defined in the Local directory text box in the Message Storage section at the bottom of your Sever Settings in your Account Definition, which unfortunately as far as I am aware doesn't support multiple directories. You should be able to set up a new account definition for your mail isp to use the second mail directory and configure that account definition to not retrieve emails from your ISP's server, which will then provide you with access to those mails from that account definition down the left hand side, and it should also never fetch any new emails. This is similar to what I did when I changed distributions and just reused the thunderbird mail directory, and what I did when I configured my Thunderbird to be able to access my wife's mail directory which is on the same pc.
regards, Steve
On 04/26/2014 02:31 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 12:00 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:36 AM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 11:18 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 08:31 PM, Mickey wrote:
On 04/25/2014 06:45 AM, Jatin K wrote:
On Friday 25 April 2014 02:57 PM, Mickey wrote: > On 04/25/2014 02:33 AM, Jatin K wrote: >> On Thursday 24 April 2014 10:23 PM, Mickey wrote:
Local Folders Local Folders-1 mail.comcast-1.net mail.comcast.net smart.mailboxes
did you try under edit-account settings , comcast account, click on server settings. down at the bottom, point it to you mail.comcast.net folder
Under accountsettings in Server setting I changed it to read the "mail.comcast.net" and now I can read the old Emails .
Why does it not display both Email files on the left column of the Thunderbird Browser ?
I guess I will just delete what few emails i have in ;
"mail.comcast-1.net" and use the "mail.comcast.net"
Thanks guys for your Help.
On 04/25/2014 05:06 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Just my 2 cents worth, which may or may not help. As I understandthe way Thunderbird works, the mail files in your profile directory that Thunderbird uses are defined in the Local directory text box in the Message Storage section at the bottom of your Sever Settings in your Account Definition, which unfortunately as far as I am aware doesn't support multiple directories.
...because it doesn't need to. On my desktop computer, all of the mailboxes are stored in /home/joe/.thunderbird/ywhu7a5g.default/Mail/Local Folders, and the name of the default profile varies from one person to another.
In order to have your old mail folders show up, start off by closing Thunderbird. Then, copy all of the mailbox files and their indexes (the .msf files) into that directory. When you restart T'bird, they'll be available. I know, because I use this to move saved emails from my laptop to my desktop whenever I've been away from home and had anything that needed to be available at home.
Hi Zeff, You are right your method will work as long as the destination location in local folders is empty as you are overwriting those files when you do your copy. The method I was suggesting was to get the second set of emails to be listed as an inbox as I thought they were on the original system. But either method will work as long as appropriate precautions are taken.
regards, Steve
On 04/26/2014 10:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 04/25/2014 05:06 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
Just my 2 cents worth, which may or may not help. As I understandthe way Thunderbird works, the mail files in your profile directory that Thunderbird uses are defined in the Local directory text box in the Message Storage section at the bottom of your Sever Settings in your Account Definition, which unfortunately as far as I am aware doesn't support multiple directories.
...because it doesn't need to. On my desktop computer, all of the mailboxes are stored in /home/joe/.thunderbird/ywhu7a5g.default/Mail/Local Folders, and the name of the default profile varies from one person to another.
In order to have your old mail folders show up, start off by closing Thunderbird. Then, copy all of the mailbox files and their indexes (the .msf files) into that directory. When you restart T'bird, they'll be available. I know, because I use this to move saved emails from my laptop to my desktop whenever I've been away from home and had anything that needed to be available at home.
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