On 10/2/23 14:13, Lester Petrie wrote:
On 10/1/2023 6:31 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/1/23 10:43, Lester Petrie wrote:
>>
>> On 10/1/2023 5:51 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 14:43 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>>> On 9/30/23 14:40, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>>>> On 09/30/2023 03:18 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>>>>> As far as I know, there aren't any options for local
storage.
>>>>> I mean there are no options for what type of storage Thunderbird
uses
>>>> for local storage. It only has the format Mozilla has always used,
>>>> which I think is something like mbox with an index.
>>
>> mbox is the default, but you can select Maildir when you create the
>> account, at least when you are using imap.
>
> I've never seen any options like that and still don't when I tried it
> again.
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)
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.