Mozilla Thunderbird settings live in profiles. Profiles are stored in personal folders. Below is shown, respectively, where, for Windows and Linux.
For Windows:
%APPDATA%\Thunderbird\Profiles\Default.xxx\
for example, for XP/2003:
C:\Documents and Settings\%USER%\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxx.default\
for Vista/7/2008:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\
For Linux:
~/.thunderbird
Accordingly, ~ is the user's home folder
(for example, "/home/username/.thunderbird")
Files in profiles
- (arbitrary 8 digits).s ::: password database
- abook.mab ::: personal address book
- cert7.db or cert8.db ::: certificates
- history.mab ::: address book of "collected addresses"
- key3.db ::: key database for certificates
- localstore.rdf ::: window position and size
- mailViews.dat ::: message view modes
- mimeTypes.rdf ::: MIME types
- panacea.dat ::: mail folder cache
- parent.lock and .parentlock ::: lock file, created when Thunderbird is launched with this profile
- persdict.dat ::: user dictionary
- prefs.js ::: main configuration file
- secmod.db ::: security device database
- training.dat ::: spam filter data
- user.js ::: user configuration file. On launch, Thunderbird will overwrite the specified values from user.js into prefs.js. Thunderbird itself, however, cannot change the data in this file.
- XUL.mfl and XUL.mfasl ::: XUL cache
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