On 01/16/18 05:04, David A. De Graaf wrote: > But WHY this happened - I suppose is unknowable. I discovered that > thunderbird, > because it is using IMAP, creates and maintains copies of all the mail that > exists > in the primary files on the server: /var/mail/dad, plus the archives in > ~/Mail/*. > That seems like a REALLY NUTTY design. If TB were running on a remote > machine, > yes, it would make sense to reduce communication bandwidth. But in this > case, TB > is running on the same machine that contains the primary email files. > > With all the attendant copying of files it is unsurprising that the duplicate > IMAP > files got screwed up. > > If only there were a way to make thunderbird use the native email files, as > mutt > does, this problem wouldn't occur.
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