I finished off last friday by installing Linux on my job computer. I now have both Win2000 and Linux (Fedora Core 3) installed.

On 2000 I used Thunderbird as my mail client, and I want to do that on Linux as well. Therefore I want to move my mailbox from 2000 to Linux. (I have considered using the same profile on both OS, but think I wanna move it instead)

How do I perform this move?

I had an unsuccessful go at it before I went home friday.

1. made a backup of my 2000 profile (with EZ Thunderbird or what it was called again)

2. moved this folder into my ~/.thunderbird folder

3. in profiles.ini I wrote the name of the profile I had moved, and changed the bIsRelative(?) value to 0.

Problem is that when I started thunderbird it did not use this, but created a new profile instead... I have not yet set up an account.

Any help (before monday ) would be appreciated!

Well try these steps ...
Create a new acount with thunderbird, exit the program, now you must copy all the files stored in your windows profile (in the folder with a strange name like ebu4b2y4bf.default) to the folder with the strange name in your linux profile.

Another way to do that is to copy the files under ***.default/aaa.isp.com/ without extension (Drafts, Inbox and s on) to the Local Folders directory under your Linux profile, you get all the mail there next time you start thunderbird but other things like message filters get lost ....

Ah ... and don't forget to backup everything before if something goes wrong

( i double posted it )

Thanks for the fast reply. I'll try it out tomorrow morning.

Let us know how that works out for you. I've recently abandoned WinXP for Slackware, and I'd like to save my mail archive. Fortunately I'm on a new hard drive, so my old XP installation is intact.

Worked like a charm.

I decided to leave the mailbox on a drive that is mounted on bot OS'es. Under account settings I just replaced the path to <Local Folder> with the path to my mailbox.

:-)