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Restore a deleted account from Thunderbird email

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Michelle Fahrenbach-Wrubel
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By accident I deleted what I thought was a duplicate email account from my Thunderbird emails. I lost the whole account instead of just cleaning up the extra one the other one was deleted and it is a main email account for me and the inbox had emails I need.

How do I restore this account

By accident I deleted what I thought was a duplicate email account from my Thunderbird emails. I lost the whole account instead of just cleaning up the extra one the other one was deleted and it is a main email account for me and the inbox had emails I need. How do I restore this account

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david
david
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I regret to tell you, but it's gone. Keeping backups is your only protection.

david
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BUT, if it is an IMAP account, it's all still on the server. Just set it up again. If it was a POP account, remnants of the account are still on the server, depending on what settings you had specified, but any retrieved messages from the POP account would be gone.