Archiving e-mail on NAS
Hi, I hope someone can help me. I've been archiving my e-mail on my Synology NAS for a number of years now. However, my W10 desktop computer died last year and I've had to reinstall Thunderbird on a new W11 PC. I want to get access to all the archived e-mails on my NAS, that is, as they used to appear in Thunderbird under local folders year-by-year. I also want to be able to archive more recent e-mails to the same location. That is, I want to re-establish the same archiving process I had previously, complete with access to the old archives. I've tried to set up the same file path to the NAS under Local Folders in Thunderbird (as far as I can remember - I might not have it correct) but the old archives don't appear. in an attempt to identify the correct file path on the NAS, I've tried to archive a recent message as a test so I can see where it is stored - in Thunderbird the year folder appears under the NAS location under local folders as expected and I can see the message in the message window so it seems to be working but I can't see any new folders or files on the NAS - nothing modified or created with today's date. I'd be grateful for any assistance. Thanks, Kevin
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Just to clarify. I mapped to the file share location on the NAS using Windows Explorer creating a new drive letter. I've tested access to this NAS location by saving a test file to it. I've created a folder under Local Folders (in Thunderbird) pointing to the same location on the NAS and made this the archive location under Account Settings, Copies & Folders, Message Archives. However, each time I archive a message it's stored in a location under AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profile/xxxxxx/Mail/Local Folder/XXXXXX.
truenorth1 said
J I've created a folder under Local Folders (in Thunderbird) pointing to the same location on the NAS and made this the archive location under Account Settings, Copies & Folders, Message Archives. However, each time I archive a message it's stored in a location under AppData/Roaming/Thunderbird/Profile/xxxxxx/Mail/Local Folder/XXXXXX.
How did you create this folder under local folders? Thunderbird has no facility to set a location for individual folders, only an account.
Hi Matt, thanks for your reply.
To be honest I can't fully remember how I did it originally - I'm trying to rediscover how I did it. Certainly, all the old archive files are on the NAS arranged by year and I could open them and look at the older e-mails - it was definitely working. I'm pretty sure the archive folders (one for each year) were under local folders.
What I did this time is I mapped a NAS drive to my PC so I end up with a new drive letter, in this case Z:. Then I right-clicked inbox and created a new folder under local folders using this drive letter and the file path on the NAS, say Z:\mail_archive. I then went to account settings and set the archive location to this Thunderbird folder. The folder has an archive icon. When I archive an e-mail it seems to be creating the archive on my C: drive under AppData\Roaming\Thurderbird etc.
I'm still experimenting here trying to figure out how I set it up the first time.
Most frustrating as my mailbox is full and I need to offload some content.
Again, thanks for any advice.
Regards, Kevin
what is the folder hierarchy on the nas looking like that contains the archives? The parent folder names might offer relevant information.
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