Path: csiph.com!news.uzoreto.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Jackson Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.firefox,alt.comp.software.thunderbird,alt.comp.software.seamonkey,alt.fan.mozilla Subject: Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2021 20:41:28 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <8SGqTdKod1agFwcy@brattleho.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed X-Trace: individual.net E7sKnwqShxETzVqtjlWg1w7kmrGCXSbdLrsuNBcHVdY1vEo9Pv X-Orig-Path: g3ohx.co.uk!ianREMOVETHISjackson Cancel-Lock: sha1:LYVLoFGXnjer+f4pnmWqO7n+V94= User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-S () X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 210405-0, 05/04/2021), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.firefox:35 alt.comp.software.thunderbird:20 alt.comp.software.seamonkey:22 alt.fan.mozilla:2275 In message <8SGqTdKod1agFwcy@brattleho.plus.com>, Ian Jackson writes >In message , >=?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?= writes >>On 05/04/2021 14:12, Ian Jackson wrote: >> I have quite a number of Thunderbird accounts (the primary one >> being Gmail). The configuration parameters vary from account to >> account, and I am busy manually compiling a spreadsheet of all >> the things you need to make things work (server names, user >> names, port numbers, authentication, passwords etc). This is very >> laborious (and the alternative of taking loads of screengrabs is >> equally laborious). I've been looking for one all-embracing >> configuration file, but I can find one. Is there any way of getting >> (say) a quick textfile of everything - or at least everything for each >> account? >>This is the best you can do: >>[ Image attached for turnips ] >>Now the question is how do you get there? >>You need to go to: >>Help >> Troubleshoot Information. >>The second set of info are about Mail and News Accounts. > >Thanks. > >I'd been there, but I found a simple 'highlight, copy and paste') eg to >a Word document or Wordpad) produced a bit of a mess. However, I've now >found that if you select the 'Copy text to clipboard' box instead, then >use Paste Special to allow HTML text, then use landscape and a size 6 >font, it's a lot clearer (and should be easier to edit and sort out). >Actually, pasting to Excel also looks promising. > >Thanks again. Actually, pasting into Excel works fine. All it needs afterwards is a bit of sliding around of the cell borders. [Actually, I now realise that there are other ways of doing all this - and I'm experimenting.] -- Ian