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[ubuntu] How to get Thunderbird to find my mail

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http://ubuntuforums.org – My old computer crashed and we got a new one and installed Ubuntu 12.04. I restored my mail backup to .thunderbird and started it, but it tries to create a new profile. A new profile appeared in my .thunderbird directory. I edited the profiles.ini file to point to the old 'restored' profile, but it STILL refuses to come up with my existing email account. (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 08/25/2012

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I have a new computer and it forced me to change email client. I chose Thunderbird. It installed fine on Windows 7 and XP, but on Ubuntu, all I can get for account profile setup is the default.

Can anybody help me to save the changes I want to make in Thunderbird's operation. I do not want the program to be checking for messages when it wants to or to be deciding what is junk mail or not.

I have a new install of Ubuntu and Thunderbird

The email accounts have been set up exactly the same as on another computer where I can send mail. No mail will send.

I have deleted the profile files from the new install and copied the profile files from the other computer. Still no mail will send.

I can download mail, no problem there.

Any idea what's up?

Greg

I have searched forums and google and tried everything I've seen. I cannot find the hidden files etc. Do I need to search for this using a terminal? I am a beginner but have tried everything and taught myself how to do what I do not know. What I've read seems to apply to earlier versions of Ubuntu.

Hi,I have been a long time user of Thunderbird. But I just ran into the weirdest problem: I can't see the main taskbar in Thunderbird and thus can't create another email account. What do?

henrik https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=69256

2013-03-14T12:24:54Z

Thunderbird can be used as a client for a Hotmail email account. Thunderbird will download messages from the Hotmail server and store them on your local system. Similarly, Thunderbird can be used to compose messages which are sent through Hotmail's mail servers.

I'm having trouble adding a second email account to thunderbird 12.0.1.

I want to transfer Thunderbird Profile on Win7 to thunderbird (17) Ubuntu 12.04. I already copied the profile folder from Windows to Ubuntu and modified progile.ini on the ubuntu machine to include

[Profile]

Name=Bill

IsRelative=1

Path=(the name of the transfered profile folder)

I think the problem is that the Win.

    I have Windows Live Mail (WLM) installed on my company computer. On the other hand, I also have Thunderbird installed on my Ubuntu Hardy Heron.

Mozilla Thunderbird is the most popular open source email / news-feed client. It is free and available for all operating systems such as Windows, Mac OS X (Leopard, Lion..) and Linux based OS such as Ubuntu 10.10, 11.04, 11.10.