Software should work this way (Mozilla Thunderbird)
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Yeah, I use Seamonkey. Integrated browser, email and other stuff. The email is thunderbird for all intents and purposes. It handles rss feeds nicely too. Good stuff. :thumbsup:
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Cross-platform too! I copied my profile from Win7 onto a USB, then to Ubuntu, now my primary machine. Works seamlessly. The only significant difference I noticed is that I get two copies of the "Master Password" dialog at startup. I think that's because I have two email accounts. And yes, it does RSS well, particularly using message filters. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
digging down in the stored email you will find the messages stored in plain text, i.e. there's a files in there called Inbox, Inbox.msf (also Sent, Trash ...) The ones without extensions are your messages. If for some weird reason thunderbird wont play (which is rare) you can read those files with nothing more than notepad/np++ and see messages - A bit messy for the html formatted but you can search for and find body text. - in fact many other mail clients will recognise those files as RFC-whatevernumber email files and open them correctly. as usual it's only microslop that does things differently, they broke [and attempted kill] that standard decades ago, and never fixed it.
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Thunderbirds are go ! :-\
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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VM with mozilla thunderbird crashed. I could still get the data but couldn't run any apps (Including thunderbird). Googled where Thunderbird stores email and email setup. %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird Installed Thunderbird on new machine. Did not start it. Copied %appdata%\roaming\thunderbird from old to new machine. Started Thunderbird... All email accounts and email available with no wait and works exactly like it did on the first machine. Phew... Very cool, Mozilla. :cool::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
At some point this is thought to be too easy, too simple. So a developer comes up with a bright idea, perhaps to encode the emails because it is 'more secure', or to put it in XML because 'thats the way things are done these days' and he wants to put it on his CV, or to use some new technology, because its like playing with a new toy to him. And it fucks up. This is why oldversion.com exists. Because so many software engineers are twats, and I have worked with quite a few.
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Cross-platform too! I copied my profile from Win7 onto a USB, then to Ubuntu, now my primary machine. Works seamlessly. The only significant difference I noticed is that I get two copies of the "Master Password" dialog at startup. I think that's because I have two email accounts. And yes, it does RSS well, particularly using message filters. Cheers, Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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digging down in the stored email you will find the messages stored in plain text, i.e. there's a files in there called Inbox, Inbox.msf (also Sent, Trash ...) The ones without extensions are your messages. If for some weird reason thunderbird wont play (which is rare) you can read those files with nothing more than notepad/np++ and see messages - A bit messy for the html formatted but you can search for and find body text. - in fact many other mail clients will recognise those files as RFC-whatevernumber email files and open them correctly. as usual it's only microslop that does things differently, they broke [and attempted kill] that standard decades ago, and never fixed it.
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Lopatir wrote:
you can read those files with nothing more than notepad/np++ and see messages
That's really cool stuff.
Lopatir wrote:
as usual it's only microslop that does things differently, they broke [and attempted kill] that standard decades ago, and never fixed it.
Most likely in their attempt to own your data which is locked up in their proprietary software. X| Really too bad.
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similar with firefox also
Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
abmv wrote:
similar with firefox also
it's very cool to see developers think this type of stuff through and solve it properly. Of course, it probably does have to do with being very open and not trying to lock your data up in proprietary software so you can never move away from them. I didn't even expect what I did (simple copy) to actually work and I was stunned when it did.
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At some point this is thought to be too easy, too simple. So a developer comes up with a bright idea, perhaps to encode the emails because it is 'more secure', or to put it in XML because 'thats the way things are done these days' and he wants to put it on his CV, or to use some new technology, because its like playing with a new toy to him. And it fucks up. This is why oldversion.com exists. Because so many software engineers are twats, and I have worked with quite a few.
Munchies_Matt wrote:
This is why oldversion.com exists. Because so many software engineers are twats, and I have worked with quite a few.
Thanks need something like this.
