On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 04:09:34PM +0000, Chris Walker wrote:
Ive just bought myself a new machine and am wanting to move the mailboxes from this one to the new one. This one runs Mandriva 2010.1 and the new one runs the 64 bit version of it.
I use both Sylpheed and Thunderbird on here so need to know how best to do it. Both machines dual boot and I've sort of managed it for Sylpheed under Windows XP and completely for Thunderbird on XP. Half the messages are missing on Sylpheed though and none of the accounts have transferred.
I chose Sylpheed for XP as it started life on *nix and to date it's been much more reliable than Pegasus which is what I used before. But I want to avoid the same problem under Linux that I've just encountered under XP -> 7.
Use a sensible MUA that has standard mailboxes! :-)
FWIW for me that means mutt which manages with absolutely bog standard mbox or maildir mailboxes and you just *tell it* where they are. If I was doing what you are trying to do it would just be a case of transferring my ~/Mail hierarchy from old computer to new computer.
Having said that, surely with thunderbird it's just a case of copying everything under ~/..mozilla-thunderbird to the new system. If you're copying from XP then you need to work out what the equivalent directory in XP is, something under Documents and Settigns I would guess.
When you say "none of the accounts have transferred" do you mean the account details like POP3 server, name, password or do you mean the E-Mails with that account?