{"id":300,"date":"2004-08-07T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2004-08-07T15:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2004-08-07T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2004-08-07T15:47:29","slug":"restoring-mozilla-mail-local-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/07\/restoring-mozilla-mail-local-folders\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring mozilla mail local folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/archives\/000045.html\">Mozilla Mail Went Nuts<\/a>, I haven&#8217;t had a <strong>Local Folders<\/strong> account to store general and unsent messages. It seems that Mozilla got all its mail server IDs in a fankle, and needed some help to find its way again. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Enter Mozilla&#8217;s configuration editor from the URL <a href=\"about:config\">about:config<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find the highest <strong>mail.server.server<em>N<\/em><\/strong> entry. For me, this was <strong>mail.server.server4<\/strong>, so I chose <em>server5<\/em> for my Local Folders. Yours may be different.<\/li>\n<li>Work out where your local folders are. It would be in a directory like <code>\/home\/user\/.mozilla\/default\/hfwi7xsc.slt\/Mail\/Local Folders<\/code>. Yours will be different.<\/li>\n<li>Create the following values (right click, select <em>New<\/em>, then <em>String<\/em>):\n<ul>\n<li><strong>mail.server.server5.directory<\/strong> set to <strong>\/home\/user\/.mozilla\/default\/hfwi7xsc.slt\/Mail\/Local Folders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>mail.server.server5.hostname<\/strong> set to <strong>Local Folders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>mail.server.server5.name<\/strong> set to <strong>Local Folders<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>mail.accountmanager.localfoldersserver<\/strong> set to <strong>server5<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Exit and restart Mozilla.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>When you next open up Mail, you&#8217;ll find your Local Folders are back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since Mozilla Mail Went Nuts, I haven&#8217;t had a Local Folders account to store general and unsent messages. It seems that Mozilla got all its mail server IDs in a fankle, and needed some help to find its way again. Here&#8217;s how I fixed it: Enter Mozilla&#8217;s configuration editor from the URL about:config Find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1785,324,1255],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-account","tag-mail","tag-mozilla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-4Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}