Use notmuch with thunderbird ?

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On Thu 2015-06-18 17:48:25 -0400, David Bremner wrote:

> Notmuch needs one message per file. I have vague memory that maybe
> thunderbird optionally supports Maildir, which would be perfect for
> notmuch.

It's still a little bit "experimental", but it's there:

 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir
 https://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/to-activate-maildir-in-thunderbird/
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308

To do it, you'd set the user preference
    mail.serverDefaultStoreContractID to
       "@mozilla.org/msgstore/maildirstore;1"
 

If you do this, your mail will end up in nested maildirs under:
~/.thunderbird/ImapMail/$SERVERNAME/

YMMV as to the reliability of thunderbird with this setup.  I've had
some problems with it, but i tend to think those problems are more
likely due to my trying to interface with a janky MS Exchange server's
IMAP implementation (i haven't tried to debug against a more sane IMAP
implementation).

The other approach is to set up a local IMAP server like dovecot that
stores mail in maildir form, and just have thunderbird talk to it
directly.

        --dkg
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