I am surprised Thunderbird doesn't store mail by some sort of hashing algorithm to prevent precisely this problem - but it wouldn't be compatible with the way the folders are mirrored in a local directory structure, I suppose.Ĭan anyone think of a better way to get Thunderbird to cache a Google mail account locally efficiently. Ideally, however, I'd only like one copy of each mail to be stored locally. In this way, most of the duplicates are removed, and only mail with tags is stored locally more than once. Secondly, configure Thunderbird not to sync the 'Sent Mail' folder - this is a bit of a pain, since I actually find it quite useful to be able to look through just the mails I've sent, but a search can duplicate this functionality. use the inbox for processing live mail only and archive everything else) which eliminates an extra copy in the inbox. Mozilla Thunderbird is a specific open source mail client and RSS reader made by the organization who produces the Mozilla. The best solution I have come up with is as follows.

This can make searching difficult, and is obviously wasteful of disk space. Thus a mail with multiple tags could potentially be stored more than four times in a local Thunderbird cache. Stay on top of the new way to organize a space. Anything tagged in gmail will appear in a folder related to that tag, the 'all mail' folder, and possibly the 'inbox' and 'sent mail' folders too. Getting authentication failure when using Mozilla Thunderbird. Gmail's labels mean that Thunderbird often downloads multiple copies of a single mail. Thunderbird and gmail aren't exactly the best of friends.

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