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-