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Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday

Posted by timothy on from the good-seats-are-still-available dept.

maggeth writes "mozillaZine is spreading the word of a plan to have a mass migration of users from other email clients on this coming Tuesday in order to find any remaining bugs in the migration process. 'Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features. The goal is to get as many testing migrations performed on as many clients and as many operating systems as possible and to discuss and record all the problems in Bugzilla.' Read the full article for more details and for the IRC location."

6 of 208 comments (clear)

  1. Hmm... by JoeLinux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sort of like Bug-Stock. A day-long festival of software, testing, and resolution.

    Sort of like Woodstock, except without all the kick-ass music, sex, drugs and alcohol. Hmm...never mind.

    Continual thought process in Doom3: "Where is the bad-guy going to pop up next? bullets be damned, I'm running out of clean shorts!"

  2. Re:Huh? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    So I should switch from a fully functional, secure, fast, and stable email client (Outlook) to some pile of shit just because you are having a special day for it?

    While we test our pile of shit, could you please ask the maker of your fully functional secure fast and stable email client to disable the feature that sends me spam each time some script kiddy mails you an .exe attachment? Thank you.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  3. Thunderbird on TheOpenCD by HenrikOxUK · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rumor is that Thunderbird and Firefox are hidden away somewhere on the soon to be released version of TheOpenCD. This special edition (1.4.1) will be handed out to an unsuspecting public at 17 different locations around the world (and counting) on Software Freedom Day, August 28th along with a custom version of Knoppix. About 10.000 copies are being produced. The new edition might even be out by Tuesday ...

  4. Don't forget to install enigmail too! by Nelson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get it here and PGP/GPG all your messages, at the very least start signing them.

  5. Re:Migrated from Mozilla to Thunderbird... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How about Thunderbird Windows to Thunderbird Linux?

    Why is there not a way to import Thunderbird mailboxes? You can try moving the profile by hand, and in doing so get a completely unusable email client.

    I would like to "Export to archive", and giving the options for archive email folders [option to skip junk], address book, pop/smtp settings, Signatures, all to a *single* .tgz. Leave out the "profile bits" like theme.

    This file should be importanble cross platofrm by all Thunderbird clients.

    All it would take would be a single xml file to "describe" the contents of the tar file, where you have most [cross platform bits] of your profile directory.

  6. Re:Back up your messages! by LupusUF · · Score: 5, Informative

    "If you plan to participate in this. Please remember to back up your email in case something goes wrong."

    Wow, that is a great way to get a +3 informative.

    Let me try:

    Before you try to check for new messages, make sure that you are connected to the internet.