thunderbird point to saved mail file

[chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org]

Sorry guys but I'm recreating this thread. I lost the mail on the server 
while experimenting with thunderbird. I've got to remember to set Account 
Settings to 'Leave Messages on Server' 'Until I delete or move them from 
Inbox'. That way I won't lose mail with troubleshooting tips (for mail!). 
Losing mail while trying to save mail is a tragic irony. 

I think my main problem is that I don't understand what 'Local Folders' 
means. By default thunderbird seems to want to create two acounts as kind of 
part of the one acount. One I have to name (chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org) and the 
other one is simply 'Local Folders'. To further muddy the waters, the 
chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org needs to point to a 'Local Directory' - that is the 
one I try to point to my saved mail directory. But you can't point 'Local 
Folders' to that same directory - it won't accept that. 

Any clarification. I'll try not to thrash about. Thrashing about is all I 
can do when I don't understand what I'm up against. 

I did make notes with your ideas. One idea was to save my mail directory in 
(or inplace of - I never heard back as to which) ~./thunderbird 

I tried that - it didn't seem to work. What's also bugging me is that my 
saved mail directory (which I named 'mymail') does not have the stuff 
analagous to what thunderbird creates by default. 

I'm removing thunderbird now and manually deleting the folders it created so 
I can try again. Any ideas what to do differently this time? 

Chris
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