Hello Gary,
Am 08.07.20 um 16:22 schrieb Gary Dale:
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)?
I quickly discovered that Thunderbird only lets you copy e-mail, not
folders of e-mail. WHile there used to be a plug-in to handel moving
folders, it apparently doesn't work with current versions of
Thunderbird.
I can simply drag a folder and push it to the desired new account or
subfolder. At least a single folder is than copied to the target
folder/account.
Long long ago were I moved away from POP3 to IMAP I moved all my local
stored folders and emails within the account to the local structure. And
afterwards I used the same technic to move my emails back to the newly
created IMAP setup. Was working without any problems.
And the file structures of POP3 inboxes appear to be
different from the file structurs of IMAP inboxes so that copying the
POP3 files outside of Thunderbird merely results in them being erased
when Thunderbird restarts.
No, Pop3 vs IMAP is a server related detail. Thunderbird is storing
emails locally by the mbox format as default. In recent versions you can
choose for new accounts to use maildir as storage back end. But the
suggestion is still to use the mbox format. You can simply copy these
folders and the index file manually to the target folder or system.
But this is completely independent to the email server you like to use.
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Regards
Carsten
