277834 - no export/backup function within the program

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 247312

(Thunderbird :: Migration, enhancement)

Description

[mk_w_jones]

Basically I installed mozilla mail, and had the browser 1.7 running on my
machine which I tried to use as my mail client once.  Then I decided to use
thunderbird.  It looked cool.  I installed it.  Imported all my data and a month
later I decided to backup all my emails.  The only way I could find to
backup/restore was to go on your computer, find the data files, and copy them to
make the backup.  I did this and to test the backup I uninstalled thunderbird
and erase all thunderbird data from my computer, assuming this would erase all
my emails, and then I'd be able to restore them.

Well it turns out I backed up a previous mozilla mail client's mail, and I lost
a month's worth of mail/data.  I felt like an idiot.  

The moral is, Thunderbird needs to grow up and like every mature mail client, if
you were able to create the backup of your emails/contacts and data within the
mail client,  and able to import what you exported as a backup function, this
problem would never happen.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

major -> enhancement

Please search before you file a bug, dupe of bug 247312
(and there is an external utility for that :
http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247312 ***