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Thunderbird Android to Desktop

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firefox2351
firefox2351

Hello

I have Thunderbird set up on my Android phone and I’d like to transfer the settings to my desktop (Linux Mint) Thunderbird.

The only export option that I can find on Android produces a .k9s file but I can’t find any way to load that in to Thunderbird desktop (although it worked great going from Android to Android).

There seems to be plenty of Help to go from Desktop to Android but nothing about going the other way.

There’s always the option to enter the IMAP ans SMTP settings manually but, surely, there’s a better way?

Mike

Hello I have Thunderbird set up on my Android phone and I’d like to transfer the settings to my desktop (Linux Mint) Thunderbird. The only export option that I can find on Android produces a .k9s file but I can’t find any way to load that in to Thunderbird desktop (although it worked great going from Android to Android). There seems to be plenty of Help to go from Desktop to Android but nothing about going the other way. There’s always the option to enter the IMAP ans SMTP settings manually but, surely, there’s a better way? Mike

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christ1
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Export only works from Desktop Thunderbird to Thunderbird for Android, and between two installations of Thunderbird for Android. But you can't export from Thunderbird for Android to Desktop Thunderbird.

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