253425 - inter platform migration especially windows linux and possibility to backup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22689

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[ob_email]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040528
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040528

One of my main reasons for using Mozilla with Windows was the suspected
possibility to migrate all my settings from the Windows version of Mozilla to
the Linux version of mozilla. This turned out to be false, and I lost a lot of
email that I would have liked to keep. Now I have accumulated quite a large
amount of mail again, and some invaluable contacts in my address book. There is
no way that I know of to make a general backup of that data so I still have to
pray that I don't get a headcrash anytime soon.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Features I would fancy:
- Ways to export and re-import:
 ~ emails and email folders
 ~ address books
 ~ the profile as a whole
and all of that in a uniform format for all platforms.
- if that is not possible maybe you could write a little script to help
migrating a windows profile to linux and vice versa (should mainly be a question
of adjusting some pathes)

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22689 ***