IMAP to POP3
Have other computer running W10 Tbird using POP3. New laptop W11, I had mistakenly set up Tbird as IMAP. Didn't notice it for months until I needed to clean trash on email provider server. Then noticed all my trash on the W11 Tbird disappeared. I'm messy & like trash so want to keep it on my computers. How can I change the W11 machine from IMAP to POP3 without losing anything? Another question, is there any way to combine the sent emails from the different computers?
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Since you are running Thunderbird on two Windows PC the best way to synchronize accounts, folders and messages on both PC and the server is to use the IMAP protocol on both PC. This would also automatically solve your additional question about combining the Sent folders.
As I understand it, with IMAP if I delete messages from the server, I also delete them from my computer. Having my old trash is more important than having synchronization. Many time I have found things in trash on the computer that I never thought I'd need again but did, &/or wasn't supposed to have been deleted in the 1st place. My goal is to be an elephant & never forget!
dshuter said
As I understand it, with IMAP if I delete messages from the server, I also delete them from my computer.
Correct.
dshuter said
Having my old trash is more important than having synchronization.
This is your decision. Trash is trash and no archive. To change from IMAP to POP https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/changing-imap-pop
Are you sure that link is current, it's nearly a decade old. Also, only 50% of users found it useful. If it is still current, is there a way to migrate the sent emails from the IMAP acct to the new POP account?
Google is your friend: https://www.skeltron.com/faq-changing-imap-to-pop/ Set up the new account as a POP account. When you are ready the account will appear in the folder pane in parallel to the IMAP account. Copy all messages from the IMAP folders to the correspondent folders in the POP account. If everything is OK you can delete the IMAP account via Account Settings
Maybe I asked the wrong question. I want the entire POP Tbird acct from the old W10 computer on the W11 computer. The links above appear to just set up an empty POP Tbird acct. Somehow, months ago I got most of the inbox emails into the IMAP W11 Tbird, but I now see many are missing, but still on the POP Tbird W10 computer.
dshuter said
Are you sure that link is current, it's nearly a decade old. Also, only 50% of users found it useful. If it is still current, is there a way to migrate the sent emails from the IMAP acct to the new POP account?
Of course folk said it didn't help. It told them they could not convert their account the needed to remove it and add it again. You are still looking for the same information more than a decade later. You can't change an account type once the account has been added. Until that changes (probably never) then the information will remain "current"
dshuter said
Maybe I asked the wrong question. I want the entire POP Tbird acct from the old W10 computer on the W11 computer. The links above appear to just set up an empty POP Tbird acct. Somehow, months ago I got most of the inbox emails into the IMAP W11 Tbird, but I now see many are missing, but still on the POP Tbird W10 computer.
See https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/moving-thunderbird-data-to-a-new-computer
Dyrbiće so pola swojeho konta přizjewić, zo byšće na přinoški wotmołwił. Prošu stajće nowe prašenje, jeli hišće wužiwarske konto nimaće.