Maildir in Thunderbird?

[andrew clarke]

On Tue 2016-03-08 22:54:07 UTC+1100, Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au) wrote:

> Hullo Thunderbird users!
> 
> This comparison page between Outlook and Thiunderbird says that
> Thunderbird can store emails in Maildir format (one file per message):
> 
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_Mozilla_Thunder
> bird_-_Microsoft_Outlook
> 
> Is anyone out there actually doing this and can confirm it's possible?
> My own research suggests it's not. I would be overjoyed to find out it
> is possible; it's about the only thing stopping me moving to
> Thunderbird...

I'm not sure Thunderbird has native Maildir support.

A popular setup is having Fetchmail collect the mail, optionally
filtering it with SpamAssassin, storing it in Maildir format (using
Procmail or Maildrop), then running Dovecot as an IMAP server on the
local machine for Thunderbird (or another email app) to communicate
with.