Comments on: Migrating Thunderbird mail and settings from Windows to Linux

By: Mick Wahren

Mick Wahren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 00:22:20 +0000

Thanks for the tips. Great stuff

Any idea how to import the folders when you already have a profile with several email accounts already set up on the linux end?

By: Caio Ariede

Caio Ariede — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:36:36 +0000

Works perfectly on (X)ubuntu Thank you.

Just a note, thunderbird profile: ~/home/.mozilla-thunderbird/

By: Joey Goncalves

Joey Goncalves — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:02:11 +0000

Thanks. Worked for me

By: Tom Martin

Tom Martin — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 06:40:39 +0000

Thank you very much for this! I have been hesitant about fully migrating because I hadn’t been able to figure this out before.

Now that I’ve done it, it’s really simple…

By: Chris Gray

Chris Gray — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:17:35 +0000

Worked beautifully, thanks a lot!

By: harce

harce — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:33:27 +0000

thx alot! wosent sure what’s the problem, I didn’t know about the config file, but everything works now :]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:03:27 +0000

This worked like a charm.

By: Ubuntu Learner» Blog Archive » Migrating Thunderbird from XP to Ubuntu (simple and complex)

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:36:39 +0000

[...] I found these two links very useful in clarifying matters, and if you have a simple setup they should do the trick. Migrating Thunderbird Mail Store (Ubuntu Forums) Migrating Thunderbird Mail and settings from Windows to Linux (Taming the Chameleon) [...]

By: Garth Drummond

Garth Drummond — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 08:06:15 +0000

that worked perfectly for me. thank you so much for taking to the time to make my conversion from windows to linux so much easier. what i have decided to do is use kontact for 2007 with no importing of address books or emails, so i start on a clean slate. then when i need an ‘old’ email or address i just open thunderbird and refer to it. that way i have a great archive, and a great current email program will all the bells and whistles, and i can use all the filing techniques i have learnt on the new system, instead of taking on all the old stuff. i am also using ubuntu as i prefer the program start up stuff on top, and the running stuff below, and i prefer file browser to kubuntu’s. however, i did install kubuntu desktop once i had installed ubuntu, and all the kubuntu programs work fine so far, which i why i am using kontact, which i prefer so far to evolution and thunderbird.

By: off on another tangent… » transferring my Thunderbird mail to Ubuntu

off on another tangent… » transferring my Thunderbird mail to Ubuntu — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:04:40 +0000

[...] I tried to do this myself, but found I was much better off following this guide here. Make sure you don’t do what I did – fiddle around with Tbird before following his outline — because you’ll have to uninstall / reinstall everything again. [...]