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kravietz81
kravietz81

Does Thunderbird team consider adding option to log in to Mozilla Account on Thunderbird to store and transfer Thunderbird settings between user machines??

Or will this still need manual setup of each email account on every Thunderbird instance?

Does Thunderbird team consider adding option to log in to Mozilla Account on Thunderbird to store and transfer Thunderbird settings between user machines?? Or will this still need manual setup of each email account on every Thunderbird instance?

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david
david
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I may be misunderstanding your question, but Thunderbird does offer the ability to copy complete profiles (all accounts and settings and locally-stored messages) to other PCs. Here are the basics:

Here is the link for moving a profile in Windows when installed in default location: 

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer

here is the info in brief steps:

  1. ensure thunderbird is NOT running on old machine
  2. enter %appdata% in search window on task bar and press Enter key
  3. this should open windows file explorer in Appdata\roaming folder
  4. highlight the Thunderbird folder and copy to external media
  5. ensure thunderbird is installed on second computer and NOT running
  6. enter %appdata% in search window on task bar and press Enter key
  7. you should be in Appdata\roaming folder , copy&paste the exported Thunderbird folder there. This may prompt to overwrite an existing folder of same name. allow it
  8. start thunderbird and all should be there