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Re: [Sheflug] Where does Mozilla store mail?

J Simpson V21 wrote:

Hi

Could someone tell me where Mozilla stores mail and how to find it?  I would
like to copy a mail folder to it.  If possible could you tell me how to do
this graphically?
You might want to read http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/ and most specifically http://www.mozilla.org/start/1.5/faq/mail-news.html#import

Ideally you would want to let Mozilla do the importing for you. It's not necessarily a case of simply copying a file over because different mail systems from different sources do things differently despite RFC's to avoid this situation. Some use different delimiters for mail messages and some (Outlook and Outlook Express) encode the whole mail box. For the Outlook and Outlook Express mailboxes you'll have to export from either of these to a text format.

I suggest you work with a copy of the mail folder so that you preserve
your original data until you are happy with the results you achieve.

If you insist on doing things manually, then to be able to answer this
question in full it would also useful to know what GUI/window management
system you are using e.g. KDE, Gnome? And what distro you are using
e.g. Redhat, Knoppix, SuSe.

It's also a bit difficult to really know what you are using when you say
Mozilla because that has changed a bit too. There is still Mozilla but
also Thunderbird (a mail client) and Firefox (a web browser).

At a generic level:

With Redhat or SuSE and Gnome or KDE, you will have some icon on your
desktop which allows you to look at files and directories in your home
directory. Let's call this your file browser.

I haven't used Mozilla as a stand alone application in a long time. I use Thunderbird for mail and Firefox for web browsing. Thunderbird, stores mail in a subdirectory of the home .thunderbird directory e.g.
/home/bart/.thunderbird.

Note the . in front of the word thunderbird. You need to set your file browser so that you can see these directories. Typically they are hidden . There will be lots you didn't know existed.

Look for a .mozilla one and navigate to the default profile. In sub directories below that you will find a directory called Mail. Take a look in that. You should be able to navigate down to where your inbox and other mail folders are and put the file in there.

You will probably have to stop and restart Mozilla to see the new mail folder.

Regards

Lesley


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