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My mail provider has withdrawn their service. I have set up a new gmail account, how do I set Thunderbird to receive emails from 2 email addresses?

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RaineyChalmers
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Vodafone NZ is closing their email service, They have instructed users to set up Gmail or outlook accounts. I have chosen G mail and my new email address is raineychalmers@gmail.com. They have promised to forward all emails to Gmail but I still want to use Thunderbird. How do I set up Thunderbird so that it receives existing clear.net.nz emails and new gmail emails? Thanks

Vodafone NZ is closing their email service, They have instructed users to set up Gmail or outlook accounts. I have chosen G mail and my new email address is raineychalmers@gmail.com. They have promised to forward all emails to Gmail but I still want to use Thunderbird. How do I set up Thunderbird so that it receives existing clear.net.nz emails and new gmail emails? Thanks

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Toad-Hall
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Add another mail account for the new gmail email address. 'Menu icon' > 'New Message' > 'Existing Mail Account'

Useful info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail


re :Vodafone NZ is closing their email service If this is an imap mail account, then I would advise you get a copy of all emails and put them into 'Local Folders' mail account. Synchronise folders for offline use to download a complete copy into Thunderbird. In offline mode, check you read emails, if yes then all is ok. Highlight a block of emails and use right click 'Copy to' and select a folder in 'Local Folders'. Why ? Because if they clear the emails off server and you manage to synch with an empty account, you may lose emails.