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)
>
> 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!
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Lester Petrie