Last week, a botched attempt by my IT helpdesk to fix a problem unrelated to email forced me to re-image my machine. Before I did that, I made a full backup of my home directory, which I subsequently restored. However, when I load Thunderbird, it does not recognize my configured email account. There is no error message, no prompt to set up an account, or anything like that; I just get a view showing only "local folders".
- I've confirmed that I only have one profile in
~/.thunderbird
.
- If I run
thunderbird --ProfileManager
, it lists and allows me to select that profile.
- On load, Thunderbird prompts me for my "primary password", which it appears to recognize, implying that it recognizes at least part of my profile.
- "Collected Addresses" lists a large number of my contacts, again suggesting that it recognizes at least part of my profile.
- grepping for my mail server name within my profile returns a number of hits, implying that I backed up and restored the right profile (as opposed to my old install using a profile stored someplace other than
~/.thunderbird
.
Any idea how I can recover here? The data appears to still be in my profile; Thunderbird is just refusing to use it.