Thunderbird ain't perfect, either

[Miles]

Walter Bright wrote:
> 1) No way to backup/restore the data. It's about as bad as O.E. here.
> C'mon, Tbird developers, how hard can this be? I want a simple way to
> back up EVERYTHING to a CD or another drive, and then restore it.

A long time ago, I remember reading something about this, either on
bugzilla or on IRC. The rationale is that this is not something that
should be handled by Mozilla (now Thunderbird), but instead, by your
operating system. It doesn't make sense if you use 20 different programs
to backup your data from every one separatelly.

Like pointed out, just copy your whole profile directory and you are
set. No need to worry with registry keys.

> 2) Buggy import from O.E. messages - it sometimes inexplicably gets the
> dates all screwed up, resulting in messages having been received in year
> 2101, or year 1965.

Since OE mailbox is a closed format, I think that there is little that
can be done.

> 3) Search is essentially useless, still have to use X1.

The embedded search box and search folders are pretty much useful enough
to me.