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'. hth joe