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Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters?

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Am 05.04.2021 um 15:45 schrieb 😉 Good Guy 😉:
> 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 ] <https://i.imgur.com/iCuQrhJ.png>
> 

That's a great feature, which I haven't used and therefore haven't seen 
before :-).

And copy/pasting into Excel is an easy step to document the settings.

-- 
Torsten Villnow

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Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> - 2021-04-05 14:12 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2021-04-05 14:48 +0100
    Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> - 2021-04-05 19:37 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> - 2021-04-05 20:41 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk> - 2021-04-05 19:31 +0100
  Re: Is there a way of getting a printout of all of Thunderbird's configuration parameters? Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com> - 2021-04-06 11:03 +0200

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