Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Seamonkey to Firefox and Thunderbird

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:39:49 GMT Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > 
> > [[[SNIP]]]
> > 
> > Has anyone moved from Seamonkey to Thunderbird recently?  Anyone know of
> > a howto that I missed?  Anyone know of a reason this just won't work?
> > 
> > Thanks much. 
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-) 
> 
> After no one replied, I figured either no one ever did this or it must
> be really simple and easy.  I took the plunge and started up
> Thunderbird.  The first thing that loaded up was a question on if I'd
> like to import my old Seamonkey emails.  I answered Yes and it did its
> thing.  Given the huge number of emails I have going back over a decade,
> it took a while. 

You may have been able to achieve the same by mapping T'bird's paths for mail 
folders to Seamonkey's, but I don't use either so I don't know if this would 
have been a straight forward exercise.


> I will add this for future reference.  Before asking it to download new
> messages from your email provider, click through each and every folder
> and make sure the messages show up in the listing.  I didn't do that at
> first and when it checked in and tried to download the new messages, it
> gave a error and left it in the default folder.  Also, when you do that,
> expect some messages to be marked as unread.  I just right clicked the
> folder and told it to mark all as read, since I already have.  I'm not
> sure but I think it may do that on messages that were deleted and were
> downloaded again or something.  It could be something else tho.  I don't
> generally delete messages. 
> 
> I would think this would work the same on any Linux distro.  May even
> work on windows as well. 
> 
> Now to figure out how to tell Thunderbird to open links in Firefox and
> which profile as well.  It wants to open in Seamonkey and picks a
> profile that is already open which gives the usual error about it being
> in use.  Hmmmmm. 
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-) 

This should help:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird

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Regards,
Mick

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