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.
regards,
Steve
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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:
> mail.store_conversion_enabled
> If you set that to true, it will let you change the message store
> type in the server settings.
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Thanks for finding that!