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migrate from outlook express

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demi161
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i am trying to move from outlook express in ms xp to thunderbird. later i want to move to windows 10 in another computer with thunderbird. however:

1. i have hotmail, yahoo and 2 gmail accounts. totally 4.

2. i have many many folders in each account in outlook express. they are sorted and organised over 15 years.

3. the emails saved on my computer are different from those i keep on the websites of hotmail etc. i do not need to download earlier mails from there, only new ones once i migrate to a new email client.

4. i had trasferred emails to thunderbird but when i start downloading, i get again the old emails which are a few thousand on the website and not the same as in oe. i need to sync to the latest emails only. how to do that?

please help!

i am trying to move from outlook express in ms xp to thunderbird. later i want to move to windows 10 in another computer with thunderbird. however: 1. i have hotmail, yahoo and 2 gmail accounts. totally 4. 2. i have many many folders in each account in outlook express. they are sorted and organised over 15 years. 3. the emails saved on my computer are different from those i keep on the websites of hotmail etc. i do not need to download earlier mails from there, only new ones once i migrate to a new email client. 4. i had trasferred emails to thunderbird but when i start downloading, i get again the old emails which are a few thousand on the website and not the same as in oe. i need to sync to the latest emails only. how to do that? please help!

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Matt
Matt
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you should have had Outlook express delete the mail when it downloaded it if you don't want your new mail client to ask the server for all mail.

NicholasB54
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These are my views, but, I'm not an expert

Starting with your last question (Pt 4) - You cannot sync to only the most recent emails. You can only sync to everything that is on the email server

What you could do though is setup a message filter in thunderbird to redirect all incoming emails to an "Old" folder based on date.

Pt 3) - Same

Pt 2) - Good luck with that ... My advice ... Create the new folders you want manually as you need them.

Pt 1) No problem to Thunderbird

Hope this helps

demi161
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thanks for the responses. a message filter to separate old msgs when they download might work. will try that out. i am new to thunderbird and not all answers to my questions are already online.