I want to read emails saved on a local drive but stay offline
I save a lot of emails to files on my hard drive. I want to be able to copy some of them to a thumb drive that I can carry with me. I would then like to read these emails on my laptop whilst travelling. I can already open them in Notepad but then they show all of them and all the control stuff as well. I would like to read them the way I do in Thunderbird on my PC.
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Lots of people use Import Export Tools add on and seem happy with it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/
Just tried this and I must be missing something. Exported a folder to my thumbdrive Plugged the thumbdrive into laptop. Opened thunderbird and tried but all the import are greyed out.
On the laptop i am trying to use Thunderbird without an email account registered on it, because I do not want to go online. I want to read the files that are on my local saved folders, that I "copy" to my thumbdrive on my laptop whilst travelling.
I have never used this so I am no help. It stated that you can export to text file. If you do that then you could read the email with any text app I would guess.
Thanks Airmail. I have had another playnand have progressed a bit. Unfortunately I was called out and had to drop everything. Hopefully I will be able to play with it properly later in the week. It does look like it will do what I want. Thanks again
That add-on will export to text and html, so yes it generates two very universal formats.
It will also export to .eml which Thunderbird should recognize as a default association, and messages stored in that format would open in Thunderbird properly rendered, with attachments.
But you could already be saving to eml format; you don't need the add-on to do this, though it does make bulk exporting easier.