thunderbird / thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Support yearly/monthly archive folders

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Since Nov 19, 2025.

type: enhancement
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Description

Currently using Thunderbird as a desktop MUA, which supports automatically archiving messages into yearly or monthly subdirectories of the primary archive directory. Examples from Thunderbird below.

Yearly archive:
archive

Monthly archive:
archive_monthly

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