>>>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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>>Thunderbird files emails separately.
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>Rick I have downloaded Thunderbird but I can't find where it files emails

It's a labyrinth, I can tell you that. Rick has already acknowledged that Thunderbird stores emails in one file per folder, not one file per email. Personally I agree with Tamar that it would be unwieldy to have that many files on disk.

Maybe this add-on offers the best of both worlds. I have not used it but it sounds like it can export emails to individual files. You could store them in a temp folder until they have been priocessed as you require, then delete them.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

Good luck!