219148 - Question regarding maildir use with thunderbird

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 58308

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Jean Jordaan]

I like to use OfflineIMAP to make my mail available offline in
maildir format. Can I tell Thunderbird to read this maildir, and 
not to duplicate the work that OfflineIMAP already does?

Perhaps the answer to this question could be addressed on the
specs/offline.html web page.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

-> page owner

what is OfflineIMAP and what is maildir? Have you tried copying the mail to the
LocalFolder account?

Comment 2

[Dwayne Bailey]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what is OfflineIMAP and what is maildir? Have you tried copying the mail to the
> LocalFolder account?

OfflineIMAP allows you to donwload mail from a remote IMAP server to a local
mailbox in Maildir format.  It's main advantage is that you suddenly have IMAP
facilities that some mailreaders don't have and its oftern faster and less
buggie then IMAP support in mailreaders.

Maildir is a message storage format like mbox.  The diferrence is that every
message is a seperate file while in mbox all your messages in a folder are
stored in one file.  Haveing Mozilla/Thunderbird support Maildir would make it
much easier to migrate between various mailreaders.

Comment 3

[jorge o. castro]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 58308 ***