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...it STILL insists on using c:\documents and settings\name\thunderbird\xxxxxx as the directory in which the mail is stored. Strange. Why is that?


Because that's the rules. In Windows, applications should put user-specific data in C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\application.

On Linux, it'll end up in $HOME/.mozilla-thunderbird, which is suggested by the rules on that platform.
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-- roger