Transfer all messages of thunderbird with windows 7 to thunderbird ubuntu 14.04?

Question

How can I transfer all messages and contacts of thunderbird with windows 7 to thunderbird ubuntu 14.04?

I know that have a free app called mozbackup. But it don't works with linux.

There a way that can I make this moving?

Thanks!

Answer 1

First, copy the contents of C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles on your Windows 7 machine to your Linux machine. Make sure you get atleast one folder with a name consisting of a random string of characters and then a name - e.g. x90j7qn5.Default User

Then create a directory called ~/.thunderbird, and copy the files into it, and note down the name of the file. Then run thunderbird -profilemanager to open this:

                                       

Click Create Profile..., and pick the location of the file you just copied to ~/thunderbird (e.g. /home/YOUR_USERNAME/thunderbird/x90j7qn5.Default User)

Though apparently this should work cross-platform, I think you may need the same or similar versions of Thunderbird for this to work properly.

Source: http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/diy-it-guy/diy-back-up-and-migrate-a-thunderbird-profile-and-folders/