Re: Couple of Thunderbird pains

[Stephen Morris <samorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/10/23 09:05, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/3/23 15:00, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > 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.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The second entry is Message Store Type for new accounts: which is 
> > > > > > File per folder(mbox)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This can be set to File per message (maildir)
> >
> > 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.
>
> The "Local Folders" setting is for folders outside of any network 
> account, but it also can't be changed unless you change that setting I 
> gave.
Just further to my previous email, I have checked my Thunderbird 
configuration and the setting you mentioned is active without me having 
touched it, so it looks like in the upstream Daily version of 
Thunderbird it is active by default.

regards,
Steve

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