I am trying to open mail, that I was able to open in windows with Thunderbird. The mail is located in a folder on my external SCSI hard drive.

I was able to open it when changing the server settings in Thunderbird and setting the mail folder to the one on my SCSI HD.

When I do so in Ubuntu Linux with Thunderbird I do not see any mail in my inbox when I set the same folder. I think this may be a permission issue, but can't seem to change the permissions even after using chmod 777 on it.

Should I be doing something in Windows to the FAT32 partition on my external hd, to allow the change. I didn't think FAT32 partitions had these issues with windows, as I thought that was one of the big security benefits of NTFS.

Anyhow I much prefer Linux for lots of reasons and am liking Ubuntu at the moment, so any help with the above would be appreciated. One of the last few steps before I can basically avoid using Windows almost altogether.

Again I'd appreciate any ideas,

Thanks,

Tuxbunta

Welcome to LQ, you'll have better reply if you'll post it in the right forum.

Thanks for the welcome, sorry I didn't realise, but I have corrected the problem now.

I'll take note for the next time.

Thanks,

Tuxbunta