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. -- The bitterness of poor quality lingers long after the sweetness of meeting schedules is forgotten. --Kathleen Byle, Sandia National Laboratories -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org