>>For some time I have been using an application called Smartserver which connects to an email pop server and retrieves the emails and files them all separately as text files in a given folder. Sadly this is a 16 bit application and I need to find a replacement - any ideas?
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>Just curious why you'd want that. I love having all my email in one file, which I can organize into folders. Tens of thousands of files sounds unbelievably unwieldy.
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>If I need an email as text, I can certainly get it that way.
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>Tamar


He's talking about how they are stored on disk, not as made visible through the GUI. Thunderbird maintains each email as a separate file in a folder structure which mirrors what you see in the GUI. You can move emails around, etc., but they all reside ultimately as individual disk files, one per email message.