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I want to move some of my emails off the IMAP server and save them onto my hard drive

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sacook
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I'm an iMac user that just switched over to Thunderbird. I can't any topics that address this issue. I see the "local folders" at the bottom of my email accounts. Is this where I can set up folders to move emails to my hard drive.

I just have emails I want to save locally and not clutter up my IMAP server area.

I'm an iMac user that just switched over to Thunderbird. I can't any topics that address this issue. I see the "local folders" at the bottom of my email accounts. Is this where I can set up folders to move emails to my hard drive. I just have emails I want to save locally and not clutter up my IMAP server area.

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You got it. Local Folders is indeed the location provided for storage which is. local and independent of any servers.

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Zenos
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You got it. Local Folders is indeed the location provided for storage which is. local and independent of any servers.

sacook
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Thanks Zenos!