Viewing old mail in Thunderbird ?

mickeyboa · 04-23-2014, 05:42 PM

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.

unSpawn · 04-24-2014, 04:57 PM

In essence there is nothing you should have moved: as long as you have a ~/.thunderbird/ directory, complete with profiles.ini pointing to your current mail profile directories etc, etc, Thunderbird should find it. See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup. So what exactly did you move I wonder?

mickeyboa · 04-24-2014, 07:00 PM

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

unSpawn · 04-25-2014, 05:45 PM

Each of the top level directories inside .thunderbird/kqe760mh.default/Mail/ represents an account so rename the "mail.comcast.net" directory, create an account for it, copy the files into the new directory (maybe delete the *.msf indexes) and see if Thunderbird will re-index the mailbox and show the emails.