Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts
On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 19:52, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.
Well, I said I'd not used TB. But on another client I used to use (until its
author stopped maintaining it) these were separate facilities. One could
define a mail account from which mails would be fetched, but they'd
just be read from a folder. I did use that, when migrating from a client
on a separate OS; that OS separated mail fetch from mail debatch so
while still using that client on its own OS I spun off duplicate sets of
incoming mails and had the new client debatch from those folders.
Only once I was certain I had the new client working satisfactorily did
I update it to fetch direct from mail servers and stop using the local
folder source.
Separately at any time one could manually do an import of mails from
some place. Clearly the latter facility had to exist so that people could
move mail from one mail client to another.
In this situation I'd wonder if for example one could start TB from the
commandline telling it to import from a folder, though that might not
work if TB is already running.
I'd also consider using some screen automation utility to automate
the otherwise manual process of initiating an import via TB's menus.
--
Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
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