Will using IMAP on Thunderbird save my emails on my computer when my account expires in a month?
My school email will be expiring at the end of June and I am trying to store all of my emails on my computer so I don't lose them. I have just downloaded Thunderbird and chose the IMAP option. Will this save all of my emails locally until the day my account closes? Will I be able to access everything after the closing? Is there a way for me to tuck all of these inactive emails away in a folder so it doesn't clutter up my active email accounts?
Thanks in advance for the help!
Josh
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You can also just copy all IMAP messages to your local folders. You can recreate your IMAP folder structure under Local Folders and select all messages in each IMAP folder and copy them to your local folders. This wilk take some time and cost you a lot of disk space, depending on how much messages there are on the server.
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No IMAP is server based. You view messages on the server remotely with your computer. No server connection, no messages.
Before you lose email service create folders under the Thunderbird Local Folder's account and move any messages you want to keep there.
FYI: If you selected POP instead of IMAP the messages would have been saved locally on your computer's drive and removed from the server. You might want to Google POP vs IMAP to learn how the 2 email protocols work and differ.
Dang, that's what I was worried about. Will reinstalling Thunderbird and choosing the POP3 option do what I'm trying to do?
Why reinstall the program? Too much time on your hands? Your data and settings are in your profile and separate from the actual program.
This article tells you how to make the switch from IMAP to pop. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/faq-changing-imap-pop
At sometime you will still want to move messages to Local Folders because after you no longer have the college email account Thunderbird is going to bug the heck out of you to try and keep logging into it.
Thanks so much. I added the account and chose POP2 but nothing shows up under the account.
Again, thank you so much for assisting me with this.
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You can also just copy all IMAP messages to your local folders. You can recreate your IMAP folder structure under Local Folders and select all messages in each IMAP folder and copy them to your local folders. This wilk take some time and cost you a lot of disk space, depending on how much messages there are on the server.