{"thread":{"id":"17165","subject":"git Thunderbird Synching","startedAt":"2009-01-14T07:52:26Z","lastAt":"2009-01-14T16:01:09Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Nicholas LaRoche","Sitaram Chamarty"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"100376","messageId":"496D99BA.6000208@vt.edu","threadId":"17165","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"git Thunderbird Synching","fromName":"Nicholas LaRoche","fromEmail":"nlaroche@vt.edu","sentAt":"2009-01-14T07:52:26Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-14T07:52:26Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"nlaroche@vt.edu","avatar":null},"body":"Has anyone tried to synch a Thunderbird profile between two computers \nwith git?\n\nI want to do something like this with my main profile, but I'm concerned \nthat if I send/receive email on either machine independently that there \nwill be corruption in some of the files when I push back to my main box.\n\nRegards,\nNick\n"},{"id":"100428","messageId":"slrngms325.s3e.sitaramc@sitaramc.homelinux.net","threadId":"17165","inReplyTo":"496D99BA.6000208@vt.edu","subject":"Re: git Thunderbird Synching","fromName":"Sitaram Chamarty","fromEmail":"sitaramc@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-01-14T16:01:09Z","receivedAt":"2009-01-14T16:01:09Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sitaramc@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43316?v=4"},"body":"On 2009-01-14, Nicholas LaRoche <nlaroche@vt.edu> wrote:\n> I want to do something like this with my main profile, but I'm concerned \n> that if I send/receive email on either machine independently that there \n> will be corruption in some of the files when I push back to my main box.\n\nThe mbox files making up the actual mail are probably safe\nenough, assuming you do the git operations with TB shut\ndown, not running.  In effect, each message is one chunk of\ncode, and you're basically deleting or adding them.  Ugly,\nbut it would probably work.\n\nBut I expect serious trouble with the MSF files that TB\nmaintains, symptoms being quick searches not working or\nshowing something in the message list pane and some other\nunrelated message in the preview pane.\n\nAnd that's if you can get git to merge them in the first\nplace -- which I very much doubt.  For all practical\npurposes they're binary blobs.\n\nSo if you don't care about the MSF at all and can rebuild\nthem each time, this would work.\n\nOtherwise IMAP is a better option :-)\n"}]}