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I am maxing out my Comcast email space allowance (10 gb) and want to move it all to my PC. (i don’t want an encrypted backup, but something readable.) I thought I could use Thunderbird and set up a POP3 account on Thunderbird with the option to leave emails on the server. It downloaded only the Inbox, not the subfolders. I read on the Forum that that is what happens with POP3. My understanding of IMAP is that I don’t get the actual email on Thunderbird, because it stays on the Comcast server.

Is there a way to download all those emails and folders to Thundebird (to keep) and then delete them from Comcast? I don’t plan to use the Thunderbird client for my day-to-day email, simply to store the last 10 years of email.

I have tried to research the forum articles so that I don’t bother anyone needlessly, but can’t find an answer. Thank you.

I just reviewed the annual report and I'm all smiles. Great Job!

One thing I noted in the report is the cost of Donation Processing Fees. I'm Canadian and always use Paypal for my donations, but wonder if it would be of more benefit to you if I used an alternative.

Is there another service or credit card that would be a lower cost to you?

My pop account has been accidentally deleted, and I would like to restore my emails associated with my professional address . Could you please help me recover them?

The import options list includes "from Outlook" and "from a file", with a note that this includes address books and calendars. So is it correct that importing "from Outlook" is importing from a .pst file that was exported from Outlook? If so, would this option be better described as "Import from Outlook .pst File" or perhaps "data file"?

Long story short I cannot send emails with attchments no matter how small if I have more than one Yahoo account.

W11 Thunderbird 128.2.1

In fault finding I have reinstalled TB and set up accouts for Gmail and Outlook with multiple accounts and all work correctly including Yahoo unless I have more than one Yahoo account.

If I set up more than one Yahoo account I lose the ability to send emails with attachments for Yahoo. To test: 1- No Yahoo accounts and cerificates removed from TB. 2-Set up one Yahoo account, accept certs and test by sending an email with an attachment. All Good. 3-Set up an addittional Yahoo account and test by sending an email with an attachment. Will Fail, server will time out eventually. 4-To regain sending with attachments > I have to delete all Yahoo accounts and remove the Certificte exceptions then recreate a single Yahoo account. Once I recreate a single Yahoo account and accept the Certificate exceptions I can then send emails with attachments. As long as I only have one Yahoo account.

Any ideas.

128.2.3esr 64bit on Ubuntu Linux (24.04)

I had the provider plugin for google calendar and lightning working for years now.

But then some appointments could not be closed. So I did the search on this site and the solution was to remove the add-on and use the internal calendar function.

I did that and connected with my google account to have my calendar events back. But that left out all my contacts birthdays.

How do I get them (the birthdays out of my google contacts) back into Thunderbird?

Search brought something up about installing a plugin for the birthdays, but since I had to remove a plugin to have things working nearly as they should, I did not go the road to install a plugin after removing one.

Installed plugins now: Mail Merge No Message Pane Sort

Thanks in advance for trying to help!