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On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:39:49 GMT Dale wrote: |
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> Dale wrote: |
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> > Howdy, |
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> > |
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> > [[[SNIP]]] |
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> > Has anyone moved from Seamonkey to Thunderbird recently? Anyone know of |
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> > a howto that I missed? Anyone know of a reason this just won't work? |
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> > Thanks much. |
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> > |
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> > Dale |
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> > |
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> > :-) :-) |
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> After no one replied, I figured either no one ever did this or it must |
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> be really simple and easy. I took the plunge and started up |
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> Thunderbird. The first thing that loaded up was a question on if I'd |
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> like to import my old Seamonkey emails. I answered Yes and it did its |
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> thing. Given the huge number of emails I have going back over a decade, |
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> it took a while. |
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You may have been able to achieve the same by mapping T'bird's paths for mail |
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folders to Seamonkey's, but I don't use either so I don't know if this would |
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have been a straight forward exercise. |
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> I will add this for future reference. Before asking it to download new |
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> messages from your email provider, click through each and every folder |
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> and make sure the messages show up in the listing. I didn't do that at |
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> first and when it checked in and tried to download the new messages, it |
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> gave a error and left it in the default folder. Also, when you do that, |
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> expect some messages to be marked as unread. I just right clicked the |
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> folder and told it to mark all as read, since I already have. I'm not |
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> sure but I think it may do that on messages that were deleted and were |
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> downloaded again or something. It could be something else tho. I don't |
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> generally delete messages. |
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> I would think this would work the same on any Linux distro. May even |
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> work on windows as well. |
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> Now to figure out how to tell Thunderbird to open links in Firefox and |
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> which profile as well. It wants to open in Seamonkey and picks a |
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> profile that is already open which gives the usual error about it being |
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> in use. Hmmmmm. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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This should help: |
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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