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The best way to archive all old messages that you would not need anymore and remove them from Thunderbird completely. Thunderbird creates so called mail folders in its profile folder. Inside those mail folders are files without an extension and msf files of the same name.

You  create a new folder, name it accordingly and move it out of the Thunderbird profile folder. Created a folder sent-date and move all sent mails into the folder that are older than one month. This can be done by simply dragging and dropping those mails into the new folder.

After doing that you close Thunderbird and go to the profile folder, normally located in the Application Data of the Documents & Settings folder.

Now create a new folder mail-backups and moved the files sent-date and sent-‘date’.msf into it. The mails that have been moved into that folders are not shown in Thunderbird anymore. Simply proceed with other mails that you don’t want to archive the normal way and repeat the process again.

This is also an excellent way of backing up your emails regularly. Just copy all those files from the mail folders to another location or burn those to DVD or CD.

Finding the Thunderbird profile folder:

The Thunderbird profile folder is by default located at C:\Documents and Settings\van dread\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\XXXXXX.default\Mail\