Thunderbird on Mac

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Installation

Homebrew

http://macappstore.org/thunderbird

Needs cask support to be installed.

Then:

brew cask install thunderbird

Configuration

Thunderbird Configuration

Local Mail Storage

IMAP Storage

/Users/<username>/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profile-id>.default/ImapMail/<imap-account-name>/<IMAP-subfolders>

Local Directory

/Users/<username>/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/<profile-id>.default/Mail/Local Folders

It had been tested that is possible to zip "Local Folders", move it under the Profiles directory of another installation and keep using it from there.

It also has been tested that the "Local Folders" can be moved on an arbitrary location on the filesystem and Thunderbird reconfigured to open it at Tools → Account Settings → Local Folders → Local Directory → Browse and set.

Cache

/Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Thunderbird

Cleanup

Locate the local e-mail storage for each account (Tools → Account Settings → Account → Server Settings → Local Directory) and write it down.

Remove each one of them. The entire /Users/<username>/Library/Thunderbird can be removed if Thunderbird is removed from the system.

Also remove /Users/<username>/Library/Caches/Thunderbird.

Uninstall Thunderbird: Open the Applications folder and click and drag the Thunderbird icon to Trash. Note that uninstalling it this way does NOT clean up the profiles stored in ~/Library/Thunderbird.