[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

[Walter Bright]

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.