[NTLUG:Discuss] Recovering Thunderbird mail

[Leroy Tennison]

I was able to find what I thought was a good .thunderbird in lost+found 
after e2fsck finished on one corrupted partition.  Unfortunately it was 
apparently defective.  Usually when I have copied .thunderbird to new 
installations and set the permissions correctly (new OS installation - I 
didn't have a separate /home partition) before starting Thunderbird it 
just works, - Thunderbird comes up with my existing email as if it had 
always been there.  This time that didn't happen.

I do have at least some partial .msf files from which I would like to 
recover what I can.  Either I haven't Googled for the right thing or 
there isn't anything about recovering Thunderbird mail files.  Any ideas?