Thunderbird localmail Spool

I was in a bit of a bind the other day when I learned that an IMAP server I was using was going to dissapear. I wanted to backup all of my mail, but had too many messages hosted on the IMAP server to copy from one to another, so I decided I’d download them all locally first and then deal with them later. I used fetchmail to download all of my messages from the IMAP main folder to my local spool, and copied over all of the sub folders because I was in a rush and needed to copy them quickly.
Once they were in my local mail spool, I wanted to get them into Thunderbird, but learned that the option I had once used to read my localmail had gone. There used to be an option for it in the GUI, but somewhere along the line it got removed. After a bit of Googling, I found: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-December/027652.html
This worked for me, and should work for any one that wants to use Thunderbird to read local mail.
Basically, you add a new mail account in Thunderbird as usual, then close it. Get into your local profile directory by using

cd .thunderbird/[tab]
then
vi prefs.js

find your new mail server, with the bogus name and change the hostname to localhost, change your name to @localhost, the server type to movemail, and change the userName to your username. It should look something like the following:

user_pref(”mail.server.server4.hostname”, “localhost”);
user_pref(”mail.server.server4.name”, “owen@localhost”);
user_pref(”mail.server.server4.type”, “movemail”);
user_pref(”mail.server.server4.userName”, “owen”);

Once thats done, you can restart Thunderbird and fetch your mail as usual. From there you can do as you wish with your messages.
Excellent! My question really is why was the GUI option removed from Thunderbird? Whatever the answer this method still works, so if you need to, use it while you still can!

source: http://www.thelinuxblog.com/thunderbird-localmail-spool/

Upgrade thunderbird: Upgrade aplication with Gslapt

there is how to upgrade your thunderbird in moolux linux with Gslapt.
select source:


by default moolux linux add 2 link:
http://kambing.ui.ac.id/slacky/slackware-12.2/
http://kambing.ui.ac.id/slackware/slackware-12.2/


after that, update list package



select list upgradeable



check to install the thunderbird



and then select apply to install



the new version of your application is ready..

Thunderbird to open links in Firefox

If you use Mozilla Thunderbird with KDE you already know that by default Thunderbird open hyperlinks in konqueror. If konqueror your main browser - this post is not for you Below you can find way how-to force Thunderbird to open hyperlinks in Firefox.

First thing that we need to do is create shell script:
#!/bin/bash
url="$1"
exec /path/to/firefox "$url"


Save that script to Thunderbird default folder. In my case: ~/.mozilla-thunderbird
Now, make that script executable.

Please close Thunderbird and open file prefs.js in your favorite text editor. You can find that file inside Thunderbird profile directory. For example:

~/.mozilla-thunderbird/XXXXXX.default/prefs.js


Now you need add following strings to the end of prefs.js

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "~/.mozilla-thunderbird/openlink.sh");


Where openlink.sh file shell script that we saved before.

Now just start Thunderbird and click to any link. It should always open it in Firefox.

I don’t know why Thunderbird didn’t use system default browser either i dont know why there is no settings about broswer in Thunderbird Preferences. I hope this will be fixed sometime, because way above is not clear and not portable.  Usually same methods called “hack”