[CS-FSLUG] Linux emails backup help please

[Yama Ploskonka]

I need urgently to backup my email files, so I am asking help from you 
guys.  Googled some and got confused.

FC4, Thunderbird, standard setup

My Linux baby has been acting up, took me over an hour and some 
dissassembly to boot today, and maybe it's the last one I will get 
before a major reinstall/box change.

Thank you, and God bless you all,

Yama