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

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.