Re: Couple of Thunderbird pains

[Stephen Morris]

On 4/10/23 03:33, Lester Petrie wrote:

On 10/2/2023 8:01 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 10/2/23 16:32, Samuel Sieb wrote:

On 10/2/23 14:13, Lester Petrie wrote:

In my thunderbird, in settings/general the last group of entries is Indexing.

This can be set to File per message (maildir)

The second entry is Message Store Type for new accounts: which is File per folder(mbox)

regards,
Steve

In Edit->Account Settings there is a configuration page for "Local Folders" where under "Message Storage" you can set the "Message Store Type" to either "Mbox" or "Maildir", which a different specification to the same thing under "Server Settings" which as I understand it applies to the Inbox. As far as I am aware both of these configurations are available irrespective of whether you are using POP3 or IMAP. Also from memory I think you can change the "Local Folders" specification and Thunderbird will reformat the Local Folders on the fly. I have swapped backwards and forwards between these two specifications particularly when Thunderbird had the issue of Cross Linking emails.

Oh, nice!  I didn't realize how far down that preferences page went.
Too bad it requires redoing the account, but it might be worth it.

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After a bunch of searching, I discovered that you don't have to redo the account.  There's a secret setting that lets you migrate the data: If you set that to true, it will let you change the message store type in the server settings.

Thanks for finding that!

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