Can Thunderbird use existing mailfolders?

[Derek Broughton]

Rashkae wrote:

> sorry, no, thunderbird does not read maildir format.

The mind boggles!  In this day and age, how can _any_ half-decent mail
program not read maildir.  I've just downgraded thunderbird to
quarter-decent.

> Your quickest and probably easiest route is to find a maildir to
> mailspool conversion script.  

Heck, no.  Install dovecot ... oh, yeah, you're about to say that :-)

> That being said, I've become a big fan of running Imap server locally.

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derek