Using multiple inboxes in one thunderbird

[Dieter Meinert]

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Hi all,

I still worry about the following:

I have procmail pre-sorting my emails;
I want to read these sorted mailboxes with thunderbird
But: I also want to manage these mailboxes by thunderbird !

I first store the different mailboxes in a directory thunderbird can
access:
Thunderbird can show these mails, It even moves or deletes these
mails, however, when I start TB anew, all mails are back in the
mailbox. I.e. TB does not expunge the unix-mail-spool containing
the messages.

Second attempt: let thunderbird keep its own storage structure, and use
the procmail-spools as inboxes:
This works well with the box directed to by the MAIL
env-variable, but all other spools are not recognized and thus
not read at all.

Is there any workaround ?

I do not want to change my whole e-mailing to be handled by TB alone !
However with the metamail package apparently gone from stand-alone
support I need a tool to handle MIME messages.

Have a happy new year

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Dieter Meinert

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[Nir]

Dieter Meinert said the following On 01/03/2008 01:24 AM:

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>
> Hi all,
>
> I still worry about the following:
>
> I have procmail pre-sorting my emails; I want to read these sorted
> mailboxes with thunderbird But: I also want to manage these mailboxes
> by thunderbird !
>
> I first store the different mailboxes in a directory thunderbird can
> access: Thunderbird can show these mails, It even moves or deletes
> these mails, however, when I start TB anew, all mails are back in
> the mailbox. I.e. TB does not expunge the unix-mail-spool containing
> the messages.
>
> Second attempt: let thunderbird keep its own storage structure, and
> use the procmail-spools as inboxes: This works well with the box
> directed to by the MAIL env-variable, but all other spools are not
> recognized and thus not read at all.
>
> Is there any workaround ?
>
> I do not want to change my whole e-mailing to be handled by TB alone
> ! However with the metamail package apparently gone from stand-alone
> support I need a tool to handle MIME messages.
>
> Have a happy new year
>

See if this thread helps you to solve your problem[1]

[1]"http://readlist.com/lists/lists.mozilla.org/support-thunderbird/5/27412.html"