[thelist] thunderbird question
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Tue Jul 6 02:51:03 CDT 2004
joe wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>
>> Does thunderbird store emails in a huge binary file like Outlook,
>> or are they stored in text files, like Eudora (separate text files
>> for each folder)?
>>
>> Tnx :)
>
>
> hi Mike
>
> The FAQ at the Thunderbird website should help you out:
> http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/faq.html#q2.10 Mail is saved in the
> 'standard plain text "mbox" format'.
>
Does this mean that you can have one common mail directory that you can
share between Thunderbird and any other program that can read mbox mail
folders?
Also, what if you have a lot of messages in Mozilla Mail -- and want to
switch to Thunderbird. Will Thunderbird be able to read the Mozilla
Mail settings/folder (this is on Windows).
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