will someone try to help with a Thunderbird email question
 

I want to move my email message archive out of the per-profile, Local Folders message archive tree. I'd like to tell Thunderbird that the logical "Local Folders" has a physical location {path}/{folder}. Does anyone know how to do this?

Clearly, this is a Thunderbird issue so I've tried to take this to the Mozilla forums, but I'm caught in the sight credentials Ouroboros: registration says "username in use" and find-password says, "no such username" ... for every name that I've tried.

I use Linux Mint 18.1 and they deploy Thunderbird (Mozilla) as their email client.

Each email user has a profile. Each profile has a folder tree.

In that folder tree are folders and files with details about each email server, the address book, and all of the stored email messages.
Buried among the email is a folder tree called Local Folders.

Thunderbird uses this Local Folders for what they call Global Inbox -- all inbound messages show in a common folder across all email accounts. I do not use this feature.

Another use for Local Folders involves message archives. BINGO!
I use these archive folders.

Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

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Ouroboros -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros

by default? No, that can't be right.
I can't tell from here, I've used the same thunderbird directory for 7 years, and mine was You may wish to search and evaluate
I blew out the OS and went native on Debian, so now I have a
same accounts, same settings. Odd.
At one time I wanted to remove the "Local Folders" from the tree (and it can be done) but it can have negative consequences.

re: Local Folders
Yes, you need a Local Folders place. I want to move Local Folders and thus move the message archive off of $HOME folder tree. I'm hoping that there is some setting:
Thanks in advance,
~~~ 0;-Dan

Have a look in about:config for Thunderbird. There are several entries in there that may help. I saw this one:

It may be the one you could edit and set the path for Local Folders.

FWIW, to get to about:config; Preferences --> Advanced --> Config Editor. I have not tried this myself, but it looks like this might work.

Hope this helps.

No, you need one.