I can't find anything else about it in here, but my question is-----------Does Time Machine work with Mozilla Thunderbird? I've been using it for about three months now, and today I looked in my Time Machine and I can't see where it's backing up my emails. I also have Mac Mail enabled, so I can get them there if I have to, but I prefer using T-Bird. I checked in the TM preferences, and there is nothing on the excluded list, so it's not that.
Does Time Machine work with Mozilla Thunderbird?
Time Machine works with files. Thunderbird also works with files. It stores email in files somewhere in your home folder. Those files are backed up by Time Machine, and can be restored from the backups.
However, Thunderbird lacks the integration with TM that Mail has. You can't locate and restore individual messages from a Thunderbird window, as you can with Mail. Instead you would first locate the message files in the Finder, then restore them from earlier snapshots of that Finder window.
Thanks. After playing around with it for a bit, I can see that searching for anything is a real krap shoot in T-Bird. There's no way I can see to easily find much of anything unless you have the specific title or content of a message, looking for old messages. I was using Mail before, but I had a problem with it that I was unable to resolve---about every 3 months or so everything in my Inbox and Sent folder more than 3 or 4 days old would simply vanish. I was unable to just do a rebuild---it had no effect. So I would go into TM and just restore it from a day or two before it happened and then put the restored items back into the correct folders. It was just that after this happened 3 or 4 times I got tired of fooling around with it and started using T-Bird.
Looks like now I need to try Mac Mail again or just give up and revert to using my email accounts as webmail. I had posted another thread about the Mail problem but no one in here was able to figure it out either.
Mozilla Thunderbird and Time Machine
