Can Thunderbird use existing mailfolders?

[NoOp]

On 04/29/2008 09:43 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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.

Apparently it's been discussed for quite some time:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308
[Bug 58308 – support qmail's maildir format]

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

And once done, you can use the Unix Mailspool (Movemail) account type in TB.

> 
> 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.
>