Opening Thunderbird accesses my saved/archived and current mail from the Thunderbird server.
But you still have to create a new e-mail account on Thunderbird and put in the mail server settings and everything? Or not?
I have a couple of bash scripts which regularly copy the .mozilla and .thunderbird folders to backups. Just basically a queue of rsync terminal commands. And another bash script which copies everything back when I try a new distro. And in the past it’s worked great: all the pages on Firefox I had open when I used it last just pop up, all the mail settings are there and all the spam rules and downloaded e-mails and everything. Like magic. Linux magic! Although just logging into Firefox is faster, I suppose.
I like having a “physical” copy of the stuff on my machines, but I’m a little tempted to move to Firefox Sync too. I’m just a little suspicious of the cloud stuff, although Mozilla and Bitwarden are very trustworthy companies. Maybe showing my age a little… 