Thunderbird 3 in Ubuntu
From zen2
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)
