On Sat 2017-02-18 11:54:29 -0500, Guido Günther wrote: > An alternative would be to not backup the whole folder but only the > files modified (which excludes all the mail archives and only takes a > couple of bytes). Then symlink .thunderbird → .icedove on existing > installations. New installations will use .thunderbird by default then. > It's not as clean as moving everything to thunderbird but would provide > for a clean way back on case of errors: > > * restore the handful of backed up files > * drop symlink
i like this suggestion, and would be happy if it was adopted. --dkg
