Thunderbird

Thunderbird is a an MUA, more commonly known as a mail client, like Microsoft's outlook. If you've made the change from Internet explorer to the Firefox browser, you should give thunderbird a try.

Remember your password

If you have to enter the password for your email account(s) every time you start Mozilla Thunderbird, you can open your prefs.js file on most UBOs

$ find ~ -name prefs.js | grep thunderbird

to find the file. open it, and modify the line that says:

user_pref("signon.rememberSignons", false);

and change false to true. Now start thunderbird again and you should be set.

I had an issue where thunderbird kept showing me 3 new messages in one folder, but when I clicked on that folder, there was nothing new. The next time I looked at thunderbird, it said 3 new messages in that folder again. What I did was right click on the folder, and chose both

Mark Folder Read
Compact This Folder

Transition between Linux and Windows

You will want to copy the data from: (on Windows)

Application Data/Thunderbird/Profiles/*

(If you do not see these folders in Windows explorer, you might need to change: Tools -> Folder options -> View -> Show hidden files and folders) to (on Linux)

$HOME/.thunderbird/*

(.thunderbird might also be .mozilla-thunderbird)

You can also follow these steps in reverse

I've used * above in place of xxxxxxx.default/, this is the directory you want to copy over. Before starting thunderbird on the other system, change profiles.ini from

IsRelative=1 to IsRelative=0

and

 Path=Profiles/xxxxxx.default to Path=/home/you/.thunderbird/xxxxxx.default

Encryption

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