CentOS - Oct 2017 - Transferring Thunderbird mail accounts: Windows vs. Linux

Hi,

One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it
to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data,
but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.

An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux
system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird
is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then
restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any
idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to
CentOS?

Cheers,

Niki
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On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it
> to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data,
> but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
>
> An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux
> system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird
> is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and then
> restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any
> idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to
> CentOS?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki
Should work just fine.? I was running my computer as a dual-boot with 
Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while.? I shared the whole Thunderbird 
profile directory with both OS's.? As I recall, the only issue was that 
the Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one 
of the two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.

Give it a shot.? Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on 
or two for the new OS.

-- 
Bowie

dito, I usually just grabbed the ./thunderbird directory and moved it about
regularly.  ofc, b/u before movement.

On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at buc.com>
wrote:
> On 10/26/2017 12:57 PM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> One of my clients brought me his PC with Windows 7, so I can migrate it
>> to Linux, e. g. CentOS 7 + KDE. So far I made a backup of all the data,
>> but I wonder how I can migrate the existing Thunderbird account.
>>
>> An operation I perform quite regularly is replace an existing Linux
>> system (Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, whatever) by CentOS. When Thunderbird
>> is configured, I just backup the whole ~/.thunderbird directory and
then
>> restore it on the new installation, which usually works perfectly. Any
>> idea if I do this when moving a desktop installation from Windows 7 to
>> CentOS?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Niki
>>
>
> Should work just fine.  I was running my computer as a dual-boot with
> Windows 7 and Linux Mint for a while.  I shared the whole Thunderbird
> profile directory with both OS's.  As I recall, the only issue was that
the
> Lightning calendar add-on was OS-specific and would only work on one of the
> two unless I re-installed it for whichever OS I was on at the time.
>
> Give it a shot.  Most likely, you'll only have to re-install an add-on
or
> two for the new OS.
>
> --
> Bowie
>
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