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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Stu <stu.axon@gmail.com>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Use notmuch with thunderbird ?
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Stu <stu.axon@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>    I use thunderbird to download mail from gmail with imap... this appears
> in
>
> .thunderbird/ckw5sbm3.default/ImapMail/imap.googlemail.com/[Google Mail].sbd
>
>
> All Mail      Bin      Drafts      Important      Sent Mail      Spam
>  Starred
> All Mail.msf  Bin.msf  Drafts.msf  Important.msf  Sent Mail.msf  Spam.msf
>  Starred.msf
>
>
> I'm guessing these are all mbox files - is it safe to use notmuch with
> these ?

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

d