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[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hans Witvliet said the following on 12/06/2010 03:29 PM:

> > Can i just empty these dirs without destroying thunderbird?

NO!  DON'T DO THAT@!


> > Or what would be the best i could do?
> Well imho, used imap instead of pop.
> It leaves all the messages of your mail-server, instead of copying to your 
> mail client.
>
> It has some other nice side effects, like you can read your mail from 
> different machines, 
> or (more) easily re-install a client machine without having to copy all of 
> your mail-folders across.

+1

We've discussed this many times.
It doesn't eliminate what's under ~/.thunderbird if you use local
indexing, but it does eliminate the message store.

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