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Old POP and new IMAP using same email account

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meyer.paul
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Way back when IMAP support was added to Thunderbird, I added IMAP using the same account and credentials. I now need to migrate Thunderbird to a new computer. I believe my setup will fail as is currently provisioned. Is this correct? If so, I will need to move a fair number of folders containing saved emails from my old POP account to my IMAP account before migrating.

Way back when IMAP support was added to Thunderbird, I added IMAP using the same account and credentials. I now need to migrate Thunderbird to a new computer. I believe my setup will fail as is currently provisioned. Is this correct? If so, I will need to move a fair number of folders containing saved emails from my old POP account to my IMAP account before migrating.

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"I believe my setup will fail as is currently provisioned"

I don't understand why you think it's inevitable that your set up will fail - moving profiles from one computer to another should work. The methodology is here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-thunderbird-profiles

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