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  • Changing from POP to IMAP

    From Andrei Z.@21:1/5 to Peter on Sun Mar 21 14:44:34 2021
    Peter wrote:
    I recently discovered that on my wife's laptop - Windows 10 Home edition
    with the latest Thunderbird - she has a couple of email accounts.  One
    in POP and the other is IMAP.
    This explains why she does not 'see' all the messages on the laptop that
    she 'sees' on her iPhone or iPad.
    So, I would like to change the POP one to IMAP and obviously don't want
    to loose anything in the process!
    I've looked online and saw that 'Recovery Tools' have a programme called POP3Backup Tool and wondered if any one has used it?
    If so, is it any good or can you recommend a programme to do this?
    Apologies for the length of this
    Regards

    Switch from POP to IMAP account - Thunderbird Help

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switch-pop-imap-account

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  • From Peter@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 21 11:15:54 2021
    I recently discovered that on my wife's laptop - Windows 10 Home edition
    with the latest Thunderbird - she has a couple of email accounts. One
    in POP and the other is IMAP.
    This explains why she does not 'see' all the messages on the laptop that
    she 'sees' on her iPhone or iPad.
    So, I would like to change the POP one to IMAP and obviously don't want
    to loose anything in the process!
    I've looked online and saw that 'Recovery Tools' have a programme called POP3Backup Tool and wondered if any one has used it?
    If so, is it any good or can you recommend a programme to do this?
    Apologies for the length of this
    Regards

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  • From John Weiss@21:1/5 to Peter on Sun Mar 21 07:29:00 2021
    On 03/21/21 04:15, Peter wrote:

    So, I would like to change the POP one to IMAP and obviously don't want
    to loose anything in the process!

    I just did that recently; pretty easy...

    First backup your profile folder, just in case.

    Then ensure all messages you want saved locally are in folders in the
    Local Folders.

    Disable automatic message download for the POP account.

    Go to the webmail page for the provider and ensure IMAP is enabled.
    Look up the server settings for IMAP.

    Open a new account in Thunderbird for the IMAP account. Test it.

    Delete the POP account from Thunderbird.

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