I use EAV. I use TB3 so perhaps the options are a little different, but yea the emails are stored locally for all 3 of my accounts that use IMAP....
I migrated everything a couple months ago when it was still in beta. I recently formatted/install Win7 but I backed up/restored my profile....
Version 3, and I receive via imap. Even within gmail (check for the hell of it) there were that many emails, so it seems like it was doing...
4.2/Thunderbird Ver3 craziness/loop I'd been running 4.0.474.0 for some time without any issue, but decided to try the 4.2 beta as it's supposed...
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