26.20 Thunderbird Archive

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I Thunderbird for managing all my email. Whenever I Archive a message it is removed from the remote mail server and stored locally into Maildir folders that I specify locally. Thunderbird does not fully support Maildir but reading around suggests it is reliable. The Maildir Archive folder is separately backed up off site. I can use the mu tool https://github.com/djcb/mu to search messages.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird

The Archive button in any mail box will archive the current email message locally and remove it from the email server.

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