[nmglug] ubuntu thunderbird mail accounts and settings disappear after reboot.

[Gary Sandine]

Hola a,

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 05:33:36PM -0600, a wrote:
>slowly working through the suggestions you guys have sent.the terminal 
>and .thunderbird paths match.
>.mozilla and .thunderbird to not appear in home folder until I click 
>on mail.that is as far as I have gotten.seems it should work sinch 
>they match,I guess I am missing the obvious?
>a
>
>Terminal:
>uest-2I0FoS at desktop:~$ cd .thunderbird/
>guest-2I0FoS at desktop:~/.thunderbird$ cat profiles.ini
>[General]
>StartWithLastProfile=1
>
>[Profile0]
>Name=default
>IsRelative=1
>Path=j7hf0xil.default
>
>.thunderbird/:
>/tmp/guest-2I0FoS/.thunderbird/j7hf0xil.default

I'm not sure if this has been pointed out or not and I just missed it 
but it looks to me like you are using a temporary guest account whose 
files get wiped each time you log out and log back in. If that's the 
case, you'll need to create a real user account and use that instead.  
It looks like your user name is guest-2I0FoS in the config file you sent 
above. The next time you log in, your user name will likely be something 
different.  What is the output of this command issued in a terminal:

$ whoami

Then reboot and log back in and try it again:

$ whoami

Best regards,
Gary