On Thu 2015-06-18 17:48:25 -0400, David Bremner wrote: > Notmuch needs one message per file. I have vague memory that maybe > thunderbird optionally supports Maildir, which would be perfect for > notmuch. It's still a little bit "experimental", but it's there: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Maildir https://jaisejames.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/to-activate-maildir-in-thunderbird/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58308 To do it, you'd set the user preference mail.serverDefaultStoreContractID to "@mozilla.org/msgstore/maildirstore;1" If you do this, your mail will end up in nested maildirs under: ~/.thunderbird/ImapMail/$SERVERNAME/ YMMV as to the reliability of thunderbird with this setup. I've had some problems with it, but i tend to think those problems are more likely due to my trying to interface with a janky MS Exchange server's IMAP implementation (i haven't tried to debug against a more sane IMAP implementation). The other approach is to set up a local IMAP server like dovecot that stores mail in maildir form, and just have thunderbird talk to it directly. --dkg