Thunderbird messages look "sent" but really aren't
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I can send Emails without difficulty from the Earthlink gui (https://webmail.earthlink.net). I also have a seldom-used Juno account and that account sends and receives Emails normally.Never heard of this facility. I'll look into it, but cannot do that right away.
Hi Daniel...
What notKlaatu meant was can you send and receive mail correctly using another (POP) mail client, such as Sylpheed, Claws or Evolution, as examples?
It might be worth experimenting with another client to help figure out the source of the issue.
Thank you for the pointer... but... this teaches how to find hidden files in Ubuntu. The present difficulty is finding hidden files in Mint. The Test Machine is running Mint. My plan is to copy the hidden mail folder from the Ubuntu Production Machine onto a USB Flash Drive (this is already done) and "Sneaker Net" it to the Mint Test Machine.
Daniel B. Martin
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Last edited by danielbmartin; 06-27-2016 at 01:26 PM.
Reason: Corrected wording.
The stumbling block at the moment is that I can't find the special file /home/daniel/.thunderbird/zrumnqmu.default/Mail/Local Folders on the Test Machine. I can't figure out how to instruct Catfish to display hidden files. On the Test Machine, Catfish doesn't behave the same way that on-line tutorials say it should.
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Can't you look for the file from the command shell?
For example:
Code:
ls -l '/home/daniel/.thunderbird/zrumnqmu.default/Mail/Local Folders'
Can't you look for the file from the command shell?
Yes, but I don't see how that will help me replace that file with the one on my USB Flash Drive. I was looking for something with the simplicity of Drag-And-Drop. Can you show how a file replacement is done from the command line?
You would use the cp (copy) command. But if you're that unfamiliar with using Linux commands, maybe its best to stick to using the GUI.
You mentioned "Catfish", with which I'm not acquainted.
What file manager(s) do you have installed? Nautilus, Thunar, PCManFM? Any of the Linux GUI file managers make it easy to copy a file from a USB device to the hard drive.
Last edited by Dave Lerner; 06-27-2016 at 09:05 PM.
You would use the cp (copy) command. But if you're that unfamiliar with using Linux commands, maybe its best to stick to using the GUI.
I'm a recreational programmer, a hobbyist. I like to do text processing of various kinds.
All my Linux is self-taught, primarily from the Linux Questions Programming forum. Most often I use a bash shell with Linux commands within. I'm familiar with awk, sed, grep, paste, cut, tr, etc. Never learned cp (but will). When I needed to copy a file I used cat $InFile >$OutFile.
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You mentioned "Catfish", with which I'm not acquainted.
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