Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 13:35, Paul M. Foster wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > I just restarted my machine, and am using Thunderbird 91.4.1 (the
> > latest) 64 bit on Debian 11. I didn't reinstall Thunderbird or upgrade
> > it...
>
> I've never used TB so these questions might be crazy ...
>
> Is TB able to import a set of mails stored in a folder somewhere
> else on a machine?
That's the capability that appears to have gone away.
> Does TB have filter capabilities that affect what happens with
> mails as they're imported, perhaps separately from mails
> that are fetched from somewhere?
Yes.
> If those work, would one need a separate mechanism to get
> the mails currently accumulating in "mail spool" or wherever
> into (exported?) a folder from which the import could pick
> them up?
As previously mentioned, the mechanism for that is now "set up
dovecot or another IMAP server".
-dsr-
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