I reduced the number of messages in my IMAP server inbox to six, using
the server's web interface. I then started up Thunderbird and checked
the Options setting that synchronizes such messages to a file on my
computer. The result is a file on my local computer that looks as
follows (from a Dired
Alan Wehmann writes:
One reason to show how it starts off is to illustrate that the first
line is not recognized by the value of
vm-leading-message-separator-regexp-From_
You can't read Thunderbird's IMAP folders in VM, only the Local Folders.
(In fact, you can see from the size of the file
I'll continue in evidence-based mode and take a slightly different
tack. In Thunderbird I removed the size limitation of 50K for
synchronization. Then the Thunderbird synchronization file has a
Dired entry as shown below:
c:/Documents and Settings/Alan/Application
