disappearing thunderbird settings
 

Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
have done wrong, please?

Norman


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On 05/22/2012 05:30 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
have done wrong, please?

Norman


This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
call regular.


You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
.thunderbird folder to something else. After this
thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
to experiment with authentication methods and the like.


Then your email should be working, as expected.
You might proceed from there.

I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
surely be using it in no time.


Kind regards
Eberhard


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On 05/22/2012 04:03 PM, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

On 05/22/2012 05:30 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
have done wrong, please?

Norman



This is absolutely different from anything you and me would call regular.

You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your .thunderbird
folder to something else. After this thunderbird should start with a
window that prompts you for your incoming email server (imap or pop) and
your outgoing mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming and outgoing
have been passed successfully. You might have to experiment with
authentication methods and the like.

Then your email should be working, as expected.
You might proceed from there.

I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the easiest
client to setup for internet mail. So you will surely be using it in no
time.


That is indeed something strange for Thunderbird to do, unless it
happened to be compacting the folders when he closed it. Me, during
upgrade I have the entire .thunderbird folder backed up. When I started
up 12.04, I just re-installed the folder back, before I started
Thunderbird, and it picked up right where I left it when I did. I wonder
if he ran "Compact Folders" which is under the "Files" tab, and see if
that cleans everything up?? Ric




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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:03 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> On 05/22/2012 05:30 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> > Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
> > sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
> > working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
> > re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
> > disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
> > have done wrong, please?
> >
> > Norman
> >
> >
> This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
> call regular.
>
> You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
> .thunderbird folder to something else. After this
> thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
> your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
> mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
> please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
> and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
> to experiment with authentication methods and the like.
>
> Then your email should be working, as expected.
> You might proceed from there.
>
> I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
> easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
> surely be using it in no time.
>
> Kind regards
> Eberhard
>
>
This seems to be a very good idea, I will give it a try and report
back.

Norman


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On 05/23/2012 09:56 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:03 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

On 05/22/2012 05:30 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
have done wrong, please?

Norman



This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
call regular.

You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
.thunderbird folder to something else. After this
thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
to experiment with authentication methods and the like.

Then your email should be working, as expected.
You might proceed from there.

I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
surely be using it in no time.

Kind regards
Eberhard



This seems to be a very good idea, I will give it a try and report
back.

Norman


okay and do not forget to add the lightning plugin after
things work, again.


After all, a good calendar solution does not do harm, most
of the time.


Eberhard


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< snip >

> > This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
> > call regular.
> >
> > You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
> > .thunderbird folder to something else. After this
> > thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
> > your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
> > mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
> > please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
> > and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
> > to experiment with authentication methods and the like.
> >
> > Then your email should be working, as expected.
> > You might proceed from there.
> >
> > I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
> > easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
> > surely be using it in no time.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Eberhard
> >
> >
> This seems to be a very good idea, I will give it a try and report
> back.
>
> Norman
>
Brilliant, I now have Thunderbird sending and receiving at last. Now all
I have to do is try to recover my lost mail,

Norman




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< snip >
>
> That is indeed something strange for Thunderbird to do, unless it
> happened to be compacting the folders when he closed it. Me, during
> upgrade I have the entire .thunderbird folder backed up. When I started
> up 12.04, I just re-installed the folder back, before I started
> Thunderbird, and it picked up right where I left it when I did. I wonder
> if he ran "Compact Folders" which is under the "Files" tab, and see if
> that cleans everything up?? Ric
>
Perhaps there is some difference in file names. So that I can research
this, would someone please tell me where received and sent mail is
stored.

Norman


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On 05/23/2012 11:44 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

< snip>


This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
call regular.

You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
.thunderbird folder to something else. After this
thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
to experiment with authentication methods and the like.

Then your email should be working, as expected.
You might proceed from there.

I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
surely be using it in no time.

Kind regards
Eberhard



This seems to be a very good idea, I will give it a try and report
back.

Norman


Brilliant, I now have Thunderbird sending and receiving at last. Now all
I have to do is try to recover my lost mail,

Norman

This depends on where your lost mail is. If it was in
thunderbird, you will get it from your old .Thunderbird
folder or from the corresponding directory on Windows.
When you are migrating from evolution, Google has a
multitude of advice, ex.

http://blog.netflowdevelopments.com/2010/02/10/switching-from-evolution-to-thunderbird-importing-the-works/

disclaimer: I never did migrate from evolution, so there are
no guaranties. ;-)


Eberhard



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On 05/23/2012 03:56 AM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 22:03 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:

On 05/22/2012 05:30 PM, Norman Silverstone wrote:

Continuing with my task of setting up Thunderbird I created a number of
sub folders to inbox and set up message filters for them and all was
working as it should. I needed to re-boot my PC so I closed Thunderbird,
re-booted and re-opened Thunderbird only to find all my settings had
disappeared including several emails. Can any one tell me what I could
have done wrong, please?

Norman



This is absolutely different from anything you and me would
call regular.

You might close Tbird and then for a test rename your
.thunderbird folder to something else. After this
thunderbird should start with a window that prompts you for
your incoming email server (imap or pop) and your outgoing
mailserver (smtp). Enter all your details in there and,
please, do not leave this page until all tests for incoming
and outgoing have been passed successfully. You might have
to experiment with authentication methods and the like.

Then your email should be working, as expected.
You might proceed from there.

I hope this helps you along. Imho Thunderbird by far is the
easiest client to setup for internet mail. So you will
surely be using it in no time.

Kind regards
Eberhard



This seems to be a very good idea, I will give it a try and report
back.


I use POP service via gmail, and it requires a contortion or two to set
it up as Thunderbird seems hell-bent on you setting up IMAP instead.
That would make it all go wonky if you are using POP. Ric




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On 05/23/2012 11:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote:



I use POP service via gmail, and it requires a contortion or
two to set it up as Thunderbird seems hell-bent on you
setting up IMAP instead. That would make it all go wonky if
you are using POP. Ric

Well, it might seem like this and indeed thunderbird prefers
imap.


However, in the initial window, where you do your server
testing, there is a nice button just right of "imap", which
makes you choose "imap" or "pop".


That should do it.
And again, it does not matter, be it pop3, be it imap be it
newsreader, be it fees... you name it....

It simply does what you want it to do.

Eberhard




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