http://thunderbirdtweaks.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/moving-from-windows-live-mail.html

After reading your link, I found what may be a show stopper for starting to use Thunderbird. I file all of my emails in individual storage folders by year (at the beginning of each year). The list of folders is quite large. Since Thunderbird keeps everything in one file, that would seem to be difficult to convert and also onerous for performance.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

LeoHamm said

After reading your link, I found what may be a show stopper for starting to use Thunderbird. I file all of my emails in individual storage folders by year (at the beginning of each year). The list of folders is quite large. Since Thunderbird keeps everything in one file, that would seem to be difficult to convert and also onerous for performance. Any suggestions? Thanks

I would suggest keeping the discussion on a single thread.

How a program actuallt stores mail be in in single files or databases is for the user almost totally irrelevant. limits the storage system has are the only thing relevant. Given that Thunderbird supports archiving by year and preserving the existing folder structure (if you set it up) simply by pressing the A key on a selected mail, I really think you looking for excuses.

If your folders are stored on Outlook.com and are accessible as IMAP folders then I really do not see what your question is about as there is not even any mail to migrate.

Matt, sorry to read such an acerbic reply. I thought I was on the same thread (How do I import email folders from Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird ?), or maybe I don't understand your comment.

At any rate, you are replying to something about which you admit you have little knowledge (WLM). My folders are not stored on outlook.com and how they are stored is very relevant to me (your comment sounds like a Microsoft engineer).

I will look elsewhere for my information. Thank you.

LeoHamm said

Matt, sorry to read such an acerbic reply. I thought I was on the same thread (How do I import email folders from Windows Live Mail to Thunderbird ?), or maybe I don't understand your comment.

This is the support topic of stevehilbert they asked a question, I answered it and the discussion was ended. You drop in three months latter, write a comment that is not helpful to stevehilbert which results in emails going to them and the five other folk subscribed to this topic. (I call that spam) Keep it to one topic, I mean the one where your discussing your issues and questions about windows live mail here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1098782

At any rate, you are replying to something about which you admit you have little knowledge (WLM).

Well I have a copy, I used it to write the blog post you appear to be so critical of and am fully conversant with the webdav that WLM uses to pretend it is a mail client..As far as what Outlook.com/Microsoft are going to do in the future, seriously I don't think they know, so your right on that part. I know very little about what Microsoft plans for the future. My level of interest is really about Zero as well. I have no interest in Microsoft or their products.

My folders are not stored on outlook.com and how they are stored is very relevant to me (your comment sounds like a Microsoft engineer).

I can not help it if your stuck on minutiae, you used WLM. Something that is neither a good file synchronizer or a good mail client and your saying how data is stored is important. How is it stored in WLM? Where is it stored? As this is important to you, you will of course have this information on your current mail product.

It is fairly apparent from your other thread that you really have little or no knowledge about email or email protocols, so I volunteered my time to undertake to answer your questions. I probably spend 20 minutes researching my answers to you, reading vague Microsoft bulletins, blog posts and doing what you should really have done, try and establish exactly what change was on the horizon at outlook.com.

As for my comment sounding like a Microsoft Engineer, I was having great difficulty trying to explain a simple fact to someone who obviously did not grasp a very important but fundamental fact. You apparently think that how data is stored is relevant. That is simply wrong on so many levels. not relevant and a distraction from the real questions of is it fast enough and will it cope well with data volumes and where is the data stored, in the cloud on a local machine. Those are relevant nd important questions. If the storage is EML, PST, Mbox,dbase SQLlite or M204 is not relevant to the user experience.

Matt, I will only comment that you have been successful in totally turning me away from Mozilla products. With your negative and condescending attitude, you should not be posting, especially on subjects you admittedly do not know much about.

LeoHamm said

Matt, I will only comment that you have been successful in totally turning me away from Mozilla products. With your negative and condescending attitude, you should not be posting, especially on subjects you admittedly do not know much about.

Then my jobs done.

I would like to thank you for taking my time and reinforcing to me why it is I should not be wasting it on this site.