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Move your Mozilla Thunderbird Profile

saurabh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:29:01 +0000

Mozilla Thunderbird profile contains information about your account. All your emails are stored here by default. I would recommend keeping all important data in a drive other than where Operating System is installed. If you wish to move the profile to other location, please follow the following steps.

Make sure Thunderbird is not running.
Goto ‘Start–>Run’ , type ‘%appdata%’ and press enter.
Open ‘Thunderbird’ folder. (Or you could have entered ‘%appdata%/Thunderbird’)
Open ‘profiles.ini’.
Make the following changes (IsRelative=0, Path=YourNewPath), save and close the file.
Open ‘Profiles’ folder.
You will find a folder with name ending with ‘default’. (e.g. wl5jrso4.default)
Rename the folder to ‘ThunderbirdProfile’ and move the folder to your desired location.
Make sure ‘YourNewPath’ in ‘profiles.ini’ is correctly configured.
(e.g. D:\ThunderbirdProfile or D:\Docs\ThunderbirdProfile)

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IMAP settings for Gmail on Thunderbird

saurabh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:15:57 +0000

IMAP settings for Gmail on Mozilla Thunderbird

Incoming

Server: imap.gmail.com
Port: 993
Secure connection: SSL
Username: @ (if you are using Gmail for your domain)
Username: (if you have an email account on www.gmail.com)

Outgoing

Server: smtp.gmail.com
Port: 587
Security connection: TLS
Username: @ (if you are using Gmail for your domain)
Username: (if you have an email account on www.gmail.com)

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IMAP settings for AOL on Thunderbird

saurabh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 10:09:01 +0000

IMAP settings for AOL on Mozilla Thunderbird

Incoming

Server: imap.aol.com
Port: 143
Secure connection: No
Username: (for users who have their email on aol.in)
Username: (for users who have their email on aol.com)

Outgoing

Server: smtp.aol.com
Port: 587
Security connection: TLS
Username: (for users who have their email on aol.in)
Username: (for users who have their email on aol.com)

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Offline IMAP in Mozilla Thunderbird

saurabh — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:44:59 +0000

IMAP’s flexibility can be extended by making it available offline. For sending an email you will require internet but atleast you can read your old mails.

Configure IMAP Email for Offline Usage

Go to ‘Tools>Account Settings’ and go to the desired IMAP account.
Select the ‘Offline & Disk Space’ category and click on ‘Select folders for offline use…’
Tick on the folders you wish to download for offline use.
To go offline, go to ‘File–>Offline’ and click on Download/Sync Now’
Tick ‘Mail messages’ and ‘Work offline once download/sync is complete’. Click OK.
Thunderbird will start the sync process and will become offline after completion.

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