Author: Alan Pope Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] getting email from Thunderbird on one HD to
Thunderbird on another
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:49:28PM +0000, hantslug@??? wrote: > I have been trying now for something like 14 hours to retrieve my husband's
> email from Thunderbird on the damaged installation (/dev/hda2 (boot) 6 (root)
> and 7 (home)) on one hard drive to the new installation on another hard drive
> (dev/hdb1 etc.).
>
> I have googled and tried multifarious suggestions I found. For various
> reasons, none has worked. It is, of course, possible that the reason I
> cannot retrieve the emails is that that directory/file too is corrupted, but
> the failure seems more likely to be human.
>
Isn't thunderbird mail held locally as lots of little folders and files that
you can import? I am sure I migrated clare from thunderbird to evolution
by copying the .thunderbird mail folder and importing the mbox files into
evolution.
