[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Thursday 16 December 2010 21:37:11 Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Oh, I thought you were saying that the whole problem was just the whole
> > proprietary storage format and that there wasn't a way to migrate to/from
> > another email program. It *is* possible to backup and restore OE's DB, it
> > just doesn't have a simple option for it through the UI:
> > 
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/270670
> 
> Microsoft had no mechanism for backup/restore at the time; I called their
> support center.
> 
> Having the mail database in a proprietary format in a hidden directory
> didn't help.

Using IMAP solves the problem, since then the mail is safely on a server 
somewhere rather on your own computer. It also has the advantage of making it 
possible to sync state between machines. It does mean, however, that you have to 
be deal with an e-mail account which is IMAP-capable.

- Jonathan M Davis