Hello everyone,
As stated, PC died and am getting a refurb with Linux Mint Mate on it.
RE: email-- I did have a backup (exported profile folder) of my Thunderbird emails, is this something easy to import into Em-Client? Or, do I first need to import it to a new instance of TB on the new PC, and then have EMC transfer from there?
Lastly, will there be any issue activating my existing, two EMC email accts. on the new PC? I know EMC isn’t written for Linux, so I’m installing via “Winboat”.
Cheers! 
RE: email-- I did have a backup (exported profile folder) of my Thunderbird emails, is this something easy to import into Em-Client?
If you reinstall Thunderbird for Windows with your exported old profile, eM Client “already has a Thunderbird importer” via “Menu / File / Import” you can use to import your messages etc.
Or if you exported Thunderbird messages into “.eml message files”, you can import those into eM Client via “Menu / File / Import” or by “just dragging the messages in” to whatever folders you want.
"Will there be any issue activating my existing, two EMC email accts. on the new PC? I know EMC isn’t written for Linux, so I’m installing via “Winboat”.
If Winboat is a eg: virtual box “and you can install Windows 10 or 11 ok” then you should be ok to activate it, but obviously we have no support on doing that in Winboat on Linux on this forum.
The only thing i can say is “if you had a single eM Client license”, normally eM Client “will usually automatically deactivate the old eM Client installation when you activate the same license on another computer”. If it doesn’t you might need to manually activate it via “Menu / Help / License”.
Lastly “if you still by chance have access to your old hard-disk user profile” and had been regularly backing up eM Client, you can restore your last dated backup.zip file in eM Client for Windows and be back up and running in no time, or if you didn’t have backup.zip file you can alt restore the complete eM Client hidden database folder and also be backup and running in no time as per the eM Client blog below which explains both restore options from and old computer.
Winboat failed, unfortunately.
Thunderbird is still kind of yuck.
Now looking at just going to online to Outlook.com – which I don’t like because you’re open to losing your entire email attachments if that bastion of no-security, M$haft, loses control of it. Or, worse, (Gmail/Telstra-Bigpond). Tech for basic uses is getting MUCH WORSE.
Winboat failed, unfortunately.
Ok other users such as @rammjet do run eM Client on eg: Linux Mint with Windows 10 & Winapps in a Virtual Box. So you might want to maybe try that if you have Windows 10.
Oh good grief (& what’s good about grief, my mother used to say).
I work with pensioners who are losing their memory. I can’t expect them to understand VM’s or any of the nonsense currently being trotted out as “solutions” to a worthless, company-made bin-fire. Change for no reason which makes everything worse.
Thanks for your reply. xx
Then if you would like an eM Client Linux version, you can vote for that idea via the following Sleekplan page Linux support / eM Client for Linux | Mail | eM Client
I do, for most things- doesn’t help today, though.
Cheers