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Mozilla Thunderbird allows users to access and read received mail from their email accounts while offline.

  1. Making messages available offline
  2. Conserving disk space

1. Making messages available offline

To automatically make messages available offline:

  1. In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings.
  2. Click on "Offline & Disk Space" in the account to which you want to apply changes.
  3. Checkmark the "Make the messages in my Inbox available when I am working offline" option.
  4. Click "Ok" to save your settings.

Note: To automatically make newly created folders also available for offline use, click and checkmark the "When I create new folders, select them for offline use" option.

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2. Conserving disk space

To limit the size of messages I download for offline access in order to conserve disk space:

  1. In the menu, select Tools > Account Settings.
  2. Click on "Offline & Disk Space" in the account to which you want to apply changes.

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