1802129 - Thunderbird has no movemail support any more

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1727931

(MailNews Core :: Movemail, enhancement)

Description

[Philippe Lefèvre]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

Movemail has been removed (from v92 I think) and it is Thunderbird's choice not to bring back this important feature despite requests from many users.
So I uninstalled my Thunderbird 102.5.0-1~deb11u1 and replace it with Betterbird 102.5.0-bb24 with the patch (https www.betterbird.eu/downloads/LinuxArchive/betterbird-102.5.0-bb24-with-movemail.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 The next BB release will include this patch).
BB is a TDB clone, similar in all its aspects, easy to install and import datas from TDB and works like a charm.

Actual results:

Unable to get in a simple way any of my server local email into TDB.

Expected results:

Able to read mails from local directories and place them into the TDB local inbox.
This feature should have been replaced.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Hey Philippe, I understand you're unhappy with the removal of movemail support in Thunderbird, and you'd like to see it re-added.
Good news: There's a plan to restore this feature in bug 1802145 which is now dedicated to the technical implementation.