TopDog Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 I've been a user of Thunderbird for a good while, so when I now installed MDK10 and got Thunderbird via URPMI and it didn't work... well, that is kind of an emergency. When I start Thunderbird from the menu, the screen flickers for a second, then nothing... same if I try to start it from a console. I've tried both in Gnome and KDE, same thing. Don't have any other problems with other apps. I've tried installing Thunderbird 0.5 via URPMI, and tried downloading Thunderbird 0.6 from Mozilla, unpacking and running. Same problem. I need to see my old mail If I can't get thunderbird to work... is it possible to import the mail into, say, Evolution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 11, 2004 Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 What format is the mail in? Are no error messages dumped to console if thats where you invoked it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 Well, I haven't been able to start Thunderbird, so it's not configured... No messages in console what so ever, it's like this: #user@machine: ./thunderbird #user@machine: Nothing... absolutely nothing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted May 11, 2004 Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 Mozilla, thunderbird, firefox all store their mail and user settings in a different directory. So even if you delete the app your mail and user settings will still be there. So once you get thunderbird working, all your old mail and settings should return. (in theory) I hope your not trying to install over an old copy are you? if so thats your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 I hope your not trying to install over an old copy are you? if so thats your problem. Don't worry, my old mail is safely stored somewhere else ;) This is a clean install. I just reinstalled everything saturday night... well, if no-one have any good ideas, I guess I just have to use Opera M2 for now and hope that I find this out one day... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!nkubus Posted May 11, 2004 Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 Have you try to dele your user settings, i dont't where they are sitting but probally something like /home/you/.thunderbird try to wipe the settings out and restard thunderbird might be a corrupted setting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 Have you try to dele your user settings, i dont't where they are sitting but probally something like /home/you/.thunderbird Thanks !nkubus, you gave me a good hint. The problem was that by some strange reason, that I didn't have read/write privileges the folder /home/users/.thunderbird. So a fast chown -R user .thunderbird as root fixed the problem... thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!nkubus Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 i'm glad i could help you :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 Thats sounds ominous to me, have you just re-installed the OS, but kept your /home? If so you might want to chown -R user:usergroup /home/user Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TopDog Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 Thats sounds ominous to me, have you just re-installed the OS, but kept your /home? Nope, this is a clean install from scratch... I haven't started importing stuff from my old harddrive yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 You might wanna do it anyway,,,, just to be safe :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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