Moving away from Fossamail
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Moving away from Fossamail
This will work, right? Just copy the profiles... right?
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Re: Moving away from Fossamail
I honestly am not sure. I am considering implementing a more proper way to import mail from Fossamail, so if you want to wait for that, that might be preferable.
I do know other people have done it successfully, but others have run into issues depending on what extensions they use. That's very much an "at your own risk" kind of thing, and may or may not work out for you. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but that's where we are right now.
I do know other people have done it successfully, but others have run into issues depending on what extensions they use. That's very much an "at your own risk" kind of thing, and may or may not work out for you. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but that's where we are right now.
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Re: Moving away from Fossamail
FossaMail profiles -should- migrate forward without any issue. One thing you may want to do is remove a master password if you're using it before trying to migrate, then reinstate afterwards.
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Re: Moving away from Fossamail
My wife's work notebook I had to finally reinstall was the guinea pig (I had backup ).
Worked like a charm - but then again I don't use any extensions and didn't even know they were a thing, lol.
Worked like a charm - but then again I don't use any extensions and didn't even know they were a thing, lol.
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Re: Moving away from Fossamail
Glad to hear it!LuftWafflePilot wrote: ↑2022-11-06, 16:13Worked like a charm - but then again I don't use any extensions and didn't even know they were a thing, lol.
Yeah, that is where the problems usually come in. My experience is that usually if people have kept things very "stock," there are fewer issues, and it's when they've decked everything out with extensions and themes that things get more complicated.
"The Athenians, however, represent the unity of these opposites; in them, mind or spirit has emerged from the Theban subjectivity without losing itself in the Spartan objectivity of ethical life. With the Athenians, the rights of the State and of the individual found as perfect a union as was possible at all at the level of the Greek spirit." -- Hegel's philosophy of Mind
Re: Moving away from Fossamail
athenian200 wrote: ↑2022-11-07, 04:12if people have kept things very "stock," there are fewer issues, and it's when they've decked everything out with extensions and themes that things get more complicated.
Off-topic:
That was probably a justification Mozilla used to strip all customizatibility/extensibility from Firefox
That was probably a justification Mozilla used to strip all customizatibility/extensibility from Firefox
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