Backing up Thunderbird email

[thomas]

Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:07:47 -0000, thomas <valhalla2100 at comcast.net>  
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using Thunderbird. I am saving a lot of important incoming
>> e/m in various folders. Hope to eventually be able to save them
>> but don't want to have to save them individually. In the meanwhile
>> I would like to back up the Thunderbird folders. What are they
>> saved to?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>     
> .thunderbird
>
>   
Thanks. I will look for that file.

Thomas