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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