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Is Thunderbird support Calander in POP mail format? I download Thunderbird but I could able to plag In Calander.

How can I communicate with D. Weinberger who wrote a very useful guide to migrating Thunderbird mail in PC to Thunderbird mail in Mac?

There is one last aspect of his instructions that do not seem to want to work for me. I would appreciate some clarification or help.

Thanks.

Emile Nucho

Dear Mr. Weinberger,

I just sent you a message, not knowing it was you I was writing to, so here is the question I have regarding your instructions (I am afraid that you belief in us has not panned out in my case)

OK. Everything went well up the point the last paragraph (I successfully moved my mail files from my PC to my new Mac).

I decided to see what would happen without changing "postdate.dat" to postdate.dat.bak". Well, when I tried to download mail from my server, I get a window that says: "Alert - This folder is being processed. Please wait until processing is complete to get messages". So I went where you said to go. I could not rename the popstate.dat file by using the Edit>Rename method, so I clicked on the file and t allowed me to add .bak to it. But nothing has changed: it still does the same thing. It brings up this alert message, but, weird as it may sound, actually downloads messages (and sends what has to be sent). Naturally, I have no idea what is happening. Would you have any idea?

Could it be that the changed popstate.dat file still appears in the mail file along with the popstate.dat.bak file (which probably indicates that it has not really been renamed). Unfortunately I was not able to remane it either with right click on the mouse of by going through the edit process.

If I may impose, here is another question: whatever program I have downloaded (Messenger, for example) its icon appears in "Dock" and stays there. The same happens with the Thunderbird bird-and-envelope icon. the difference between the behavior of this program from others is that as soon as I click on the bird icon in Dock, to pen the program a new and different looking icon appears on my desktop. It cannot be trashed because, it says, T-Bird is still open. Only when I quit T-Bird, can I trash the other icon. Do you know why this happens and how I can avoid having the extra icon appear on the desktop?

Sorry for the lengthy message. Thanks much. I appreciate it.

Emile Nucho

Hi again,

I have figured out the problem with that Alert issue. And it makes me feel stupid. Due to the fact that Mac does not have the luxury of the single click to open all files and links, I was instinctively double click on the Get Mail button. Last night for some reason, I single clicked and the Alert did not open. Further experimentation confirmed my "discovery".

My second question, though, is still a question if you get around to answering it.

Thanks again.

Emile Nucho