Hello,

I've been using Mandrake 9.2. for some time now on my Toshiba Laptop. And I am very pleased with it.

In fact, I want to install Mandrake 9.2. on our home computer (PIII 799Mhz, 128 RAM, 20GB hd)

My question is perhaps very simple for some of you, but it puzzles me a bit :

Can I save the emails from the inbox in Mozilla Thunderbird ? If so, can these be read by Thunderbird under Mandrake 9.2. ?
In other words, how do I export/import (if that term is used correctly here) emails for Mozilla Thunderbird ?

Thank you in advance for any replies.

Hm, the title should be "WinXP to Mandrake 9.2. : saving emails"

Messed that up a bit, I'm sorry.

have a look at the Faqs of thunderbird

http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html

i am assuming that your XP box has mozilla thunderbird on it
and that you want to install mandrake 9.2 on it
and copy your existing thunderbird settings accross (from XP to Linux)

i have not done this but assume this to work with my experiance of the programmes

fist of all think about installing mandrake 10 why not install the most up to date stuff? other than the latest KDE will be a little slow on 128 MB RAM

if you have a laptop with linux on it then the best thing to do is creait a seperate user on that laptop as a test user (so you may get other convertion bugs out the way)

install (if it isn't already) thunderbird on the laptop

then on the XP box go to
Documeants and Settings>{username}>Application Data
Application Data is a hidden folder so you may need to show hidden folders.

copy the thunderbird folder from there

then on the laptop see if you can paste the configuration files into the test users /home/{testuser}/.thunderbird settings
i imagin that it is just the profiles bit that has to be copied.

Thank you for the reply.

But I kind of messed things up when posting my question.
I was installing Mandrake 9.2. on the PC of my parents. Not on my laptop, I already have Mandrake running on that.
And I thought I had already installed Thunderbird on the PC for handling my father's email, but it was still Outlook Express on there

So I used the old-fashioned method : I printed out all his important emails and his adressbook.


The good news is I got Mandrake up and running, just need to install some small stuff here and there.

I didn't use Mandrake 10.0 because I've noticed that there are a great deal of users out there who are experiencing problems with it. And Mandrake 9.2. hasn't let me down yet (have been running it on my laptop since January/February).

I even think my parents are pleased, once they can understand the C: en D: drive are no longer present.

Anyway, sorry for the messy topic (my bad).
And thank you for the reply, I imagine it can still be useful sometime.

Cheers.

you can in both outlook and outlook express export your emails/addresses etc as comma seperated text. so they can be imported on most other email programmes.

i have personaly found mandrake 10 more stable than 9 but that my be becuase my hardware is relatively new