>>>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>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.
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>>>>>>https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
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>>>>>>Good luck!
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>>>>>I have downloaded the add ons but the instructions say open the tools menu on Thunderbird but I don't have a tools menu any idea how I access it?
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>>>>Right click in the Menu Toolbar, then check Menu Bar. Tools should then appear in the top level menu.
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>>>I have managed this far and have downloaded and installed the add ons but the filter to send to a local folder doesn't work even when I run it manually
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>>Maybe a rights issue? Can you create an arbitrary file such as .TXT in the same folder?
>I cant create anything in any of the folders they all have a msf extension and I cant open them

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