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? If it is, is that able to be scheduled somehow - eg via cron? Does TB have filter capabilities that affect what happens with mails as they're imported, perhaps separately from mails that are fetched from somewhere? 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? I know that if this affected me I'd be hugely upset having to consider abandoning one MUA and learning all the ins&outs of another one, and would - in the short term anyway - prefer to find some way of making TB still see the mails concerned. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.