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A look at Thunderbird 3A look at Thunderbird 3Posted Jan 7, 2010 8:38 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774)Parent article: A look at Thunderbird 3
> One would expect that Thunderbird would be able to grab mail from, say, an mbox file
It has no problem reading mbox folders. Just put/link them to the "Local" account directory. I always define the later to be ~/mail so I can access my local folders either from thunderbird or pine.
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A look at Thunderbird 3 Posted Jan 7, 2010 16:11 UTC (Thu) by zonker (subscriber, #7867) [Link]
Sound advice for users who know where to find those. Not such a usable feature for users who aren't familiar with the directory structure where Thunderbird stores its mail and the way it works "behind the scenes." So, yes, it's possible, but not in an intuitive manner.
A look at Thunderbird 3 Posted Jan 7, 2010 16:33 UTC (Thu) by evgeny (guest, #774) [Link]
Yes, it's not intuitive. But my comment was only to correct the statement that thunderbird cannot deal with the mbox format - which is how I interpreted your text. Sorry if I read it wrongly.
PS. My guess why thunderbird doesn't use ~/mail by default for local folders is that historically there have been several mail folder formats and not all of them it recognizes. However, mbox specifically is o.k.
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