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Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu

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Revision as of 02:55, 18 February 2010 by Chris (talk | contribs) (Restore)
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Install

wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/latest-3.0.1./linux-i686/en-GB/thunderbird-3.0.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

Backup

tar zcvf /home/nitrous/Network/CPS/desktop-share/emailbackup.tar.gz /home/nitrous/.thunderbird/

Restore

tar -zxvf /home/nitrous/Network/CPS/desktop-share/emailbackup.tar.gz -C /home/nitrous

(This did not work for me - I had to use the archive gui to extract)