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Reading Thunderbird mail between computers

Published on 22 September, 2006 in Chat & E-mail and Tips & Tutorials. 2 Comments Tags: , .

ThunderbirdThis was another note I wrote a while back with the Gaim profile note .

When moving from an old computer to a new computer, alot of profiles get left behind. Some we can afford to lose the baggage and start afresh.

But some, like IM and email, we like to transfer the data from an old computer to a new computer. You may need to read and reply to mails already downloaded on the old computer.

Instead of copying the mail folder everytime, what you could do is to put the mail data on a portable diskdrive. This way you could carry it around and read it at home and in office.

I do not use Thunderbird in this way anymore (using GMail) but this should still work (For the 1.0.x version at least)

It is really quite simple. On WinXP,

  1. Quit Thunderbird if it is running
  2. Look for Application Data/Thunderbird under C:Documents and Settingsusername
  3. Copy the folder and put it into the portable diskdrive
  4. In the (copied) folder, open the file profile.ini
  5. Change these 2 lines

    IsRelative=1
    Path=/Profiles/somenames

    to

    IsRelative=0
    Path=drive:/full/path/to/profile/

  6. Start Thunderbird and all the former mailboxes will appear. Done!

From Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird to GMail

Published on 18 July, 2006 in Chat & E-mail. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Email must be one of the most used application on any business computer today. And what better way to start introducing free software than with email program.

For years I resisted Outlook, choosing to stand by Pegasus Mail. Pegasus is showing sign of age. The development is slow and for a long time it was not able to handle Chinese.

ThunderbirdI moved to Thunderbird when 0.8 came out. It was able to handle Chinese in UTF8 which was what I needed badly.

It wasn’t easy for me as well. Pegasus had been my email companion for almost 9 years before the switch. There are so many automated filters, identities, and preference that just works. If it’s not broken why fix it?

Thunderbird is useful if you download email to you local PC or notebook and read the email offline.

GMailThunderbird did not last long. Mail started to appear in my GMail folder in October 2005. After trying out briefly, all my incoming email are now handled by GMail.

GMail is great if you are constantly online. It takes care of spams at the server end which mean you do not need to download all the spam before you can filter it.
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Exporting Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird

Published on 17 July, 2006 in Chat & E-mail and Tips & Tutorials. 3 Comments Tags: , .

An article written a while back. I no longer use Thunderbird as my primary client. I spent quite a bit of time figuring out so thought it will be useful for anyone migrating from Pegasus Mail.

Since moving from Pegasus Mail to Thunderbird, the old mail had been tucked away. Today I needed a very old email in the old Pegasus archive to recover an old account password. A good excuse to take the time and export all the old mail to Thunderbird.

There are 2 ways to do it

  1. copy mail folders
  2. use IMAP

The first way is fine if there is not may folders to export. Unfortunately that was not my case. It took a great deal of frustration before I decided to go with the second way.

Here’s how.

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