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One thing you might consider doing is making the leap from POP mail to IMAP if your email provider supports it. IMAP leaves all your messages server-side and each client downloads a mirror copy of the original, so you always see the same arrangement. The minute you make a change on one machine, the IMAP protocol works to propagate that change to all machines. If one machine crashes, all it loses is the copies: the originals are preserved on the server still. I use IMAP religiously whenever I can for all of the above reasons. The initial sync takes a bit while the new system catches up to the server, but afterward it is a snap to keep current. As for your corrupted database, I'm not quite sure how to go about fixing that problem. I’ll let one of our more Linux proficient associates tackle that with you.
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A couple of years ago, my main Windows desktop got thoroughly trashed
by a virus, which I *believe* arrived via a scripted email. Since then,
I've used Thunderbird on Ubuntu to read my personal email and have had
no repeat of the problem.
I have, however, got two problems relating to this that I hope someone
can help me with:
1. I now have collections of messages sitting in Thunderbird on three
different machines, with an extensive structure of folders 85-95%
duplicated across all three. How can I move the two smaller collections
and merge them into the larger "main" one?
2. I used to rely on an ISP that routinely corrupted data packets, and
as a result the database used for software updates on that machine is
apparently corrupted. Opening Update Manager on that machine gets me an
error message that suggests I open a bug case -- it assumes I know where
and how to do that. Is there some way I can "reset" the local database?
Now that I have an ISP that works, downloading and installing some
updates that I already have shouldn't be a problem.
David Gillett
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