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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.

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!