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. The best solution I have come up with is as follows. This can make searching difficult, and is obviously wasteful of disk space. ): At the top of the page, Keep messages for this account on this computer should be checked if you want to synchronize messages between your local system and your mail server. Thus a mail with multiple tags could potentially be stored more than four times in a local Thunderbird cache. Open the Synchronization and Storage page in the Account Settings dialog ( Tools > Account Settings. 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. 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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