OT: Thunderbird spontaneously unsubscribing folders.

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On 12.07.2014 06:51, Rolf Turner wrote:
> On 12/07/14 14:44, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>>>>> P. S. I am running Thunderbird 17.0.7, if that is of any relevance.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It should not matter....but that is a very old version.
>>>
>>> So how might I upgrade to the latest version? I must confess that
>>> Iam running a very elderly version of Fedora (17, to be explicit). I
>>> don't dare try to upgrade my Fedora version, given what I have read on
>>> this list about the problems that are involved with such upgrades. I
>>> cannot afford to be stuck with a broken system. I am not sufficiently
>>> knowledgeable to be able to fix a broken system and I have no local
>>> resources to give me assistance.
>>>
>>> Would I need a more recent version of Fedora in order to get a
>>> morerecent version of Thunderbird to run?
>>
>> Since F17 is EOL you can't update from the Fedora Repos. You'd have
>> toinstall the latest version after downloading from Mozilla's website.
>
> Just tried to do that.  I:
>
> * downloaded the tarball thunderbird-24.6.0.tar.bz2
> * unpacked it, getting a directory "thunderbird"
> * put this into /usr/lib64, which is where the thunderbird directory
>     for my 17.0.7  version lived
> * tried to start thunderbird
> * got the error message
>
>> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxul.so:
>> libdbus-glib-1.so.2: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64
>> Couldn't load XPCOM.
>
> Naturally I have no idea what this really means, or what if anything can
> be done about it.
>
> ***Is*** there anything that can be done about it?  If so, what?  Please
> keep it simple and explicit, if you would be so kind.  I need a *recipe*
> --- "Do this, and then this, and then this ...."  I understand a fair
> bit of Linux jargon, but there is a *HUGE* amount that I don't
> understand, so please phrase things in a way that a non-techie might be
> able to follow.
>
> For the moment I have put the old version 17.0.7 thunderbird directory
> (of which I had very cleverly --- :-) --- kept a copy) back in place,
> and that version of thunderbird runs with no more problems than it ever had.
>
> Thanks for any tips.
>
> cheers,
>
> Rolf Turner
>

In your case is actually recommended the following
http://www.novell.com/documentation/evolution24/evolution24/data/exchange-configure.html
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/EWS_OperationsFeaturesParityMatrix
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution/EWS


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