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Thunderbird 1.0.6 can no longer be installed on Windows10

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I have been using the way old Thunderbird 1.0.6 on a few different PC over the years - no problem until now, when i migrate my Windows-10 to new hardware. The program is simple and stupid and has no smart features to like HTML and graphics in recieved Email, and i love it for its lack of "features", compared to other mailers i have been using through my work.

I have never had any problems with it util now when Windows claims an administrator has blocked this old installpackage from running. I managed to copy the program-folder and the maildatabase with account setup and so on, from the old computer to the new computer and have it running - but it is not recognized by Windows 10. Windows is the version from 2. half of 2020

Will it be possible to run the installpackage anyway? ( i mean overvome the rejection by Microsoft)

Or should i try to add it to the registry-database by hand?

And if impossible to set up on the new Windows-10, will it be possible to move/migrate the email-database to a newer version (most resent version) of Thunderbird? - Maybe by doing it in incrementall steps from one version to another. There are Emails in the mailfolders from 2004 and until now that i dearly want to keep.

Kind Regards Lars

I have been using the way old Thunderbird 1.0.6 on a few different PC over the years - no problem until now, when i migrate my Windows-10 to new hardware. The program is simple and stupid and has no smart features to like HTML and graphics in recieved Email, and i love it for its lack of "features", compared to other mailers i have been using through my work. I have never had any problems with it util now when Windows claims an administrator has blocked this old installpackage from running. I managed to copy the program-folder and the maildatabase with account setup and so on, from the old computer to the new computer and have it running - but it is not recognized by Windows 10. Windows is the version from 2. half of 2020 Will it be possible to run the installpackage anyway? ( i mean overvome the rejection by Microsoft) Or should i try to add it to the registry-database by hand? And if impossible to set up on the new Windows-10, will it be possible to move/migrate the email-database to a newer version (most resent version) of Thunderbird? - Maybe by doing it in incrementall steps from one version to another. There are Emails in the mailfolders from 2004 and until now that i dearly want to keep. Kind Regards Lars

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I wouldn't bother going through the laborious process of incremental updates. Locate the mbox files in the old profile - the large files with no extensions, named after folders e.g. Inbox - in the account subfolders of Mail (POP accounts) or ImapMail (IMAP accounts) and Mail/Local Folders, and copy them into the Mail/Local Folders location of the profile on the new PC with TB 78. Restart TB and find the folders under Local Folders in the Folder Pane.

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Matt
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It is time to upgrade. Start with 2 then 3, skip a few, 45,60,78 http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/

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I wouldn't bother going through the laborious process of incremental updates. Locate the mbox files in the old profile - the large files with no extensions, named after folders e.g. Inbox - in the account subfolders of Mail (POP accounts) or ImapMail (IMAP accounts) and Mail/Local Folders, and copy them into the Mail/Local Folders location of the profile on the new PC with TB 78. Restart TB and find the folders under Local Folders in the Folder Pane.

lars42
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Thanks for the answers. I intend to upgrade soon, but for now i have it up and working.

The problem is the selfextractor. After writing the question yesterday, i experimented with unpacking the distributionfile with 7-ZIP (or RAR etc.). By running Setup.exe, the install ran smooth except for setting thunderbird as the default mailer.

The mail-folders have been added by hand - simply by moving/adding the folders with Thunderbird and Profile folders in AppData. It is a process i have performed several times in earlier days. So far - so good. But the problem may occur again if i don't migrate to a newer version. Thanks for the advice.

Kind Regards Lars