First, please share your setup. For equal setup, the phone and PC should be IMAP, but you mentioned one is POP. If the two are both POP, or one is IMAP and the other is POP, you will experience inconsistent experience in managing messages. And, by local folders, are you referring to having messages on PC in inbox or stored under the 'Local Folders' setting?

Thanks for the reply, David. It's messy. My email is Verizon via AOL, so Thunderbird on my PC is POP3 (for receiving email). AquaMail on my Android is IMAP. I see why it shouldn't work, but it's worked fine until now. Sort of fine.

Messages on PC used to come into the Inbox within Local Folders, now it's coming in Inbox directly under the pop3 account (one level up).

If it weren't so hard to change my email address, I would have dumped Verizon email long ago.

Thanks. Barbara

I try to change it to Inbox for Local Folders, but it asks me ominously if I want to "Defer Account?" so I'm afraid to say yes. How do I get everything back in the Local Folders?

You got it, but be aware the entire verizon account will disappear from the folder pane when you do it. so copy or move mail from those folder to local folders before you change the settings.

Barbara, For what it's worth to you, I also have a Verizon account on AOL and I use IMAP - imap.aol.com server. If that is your preference, you may want to consider creating a new account (you can't change a POP account) for IMAP. Just a thought...

Barbara, my recommendation is to abandon the POP problem you're trying to fix and create a new IMAP account.

Barbara, my recommendation is to abandon the POP problem you're trying to fix and create a new IMAP account.

IKMAP, despite it's popularity is not for everyone. Despite how much Verizon struggles to deliver something so basic.

David and Matt, thanks for the replies.

I thought I'd take the easy way out and do that Defer Account thing to a global inbox. Even though I have only the one account.

It worked, and I guess I'll just leave it alone for now. David, if I were to go to IMAP, you say create a new IMAP account. That's with my same old email address? Just kill the old account in Tbird, create the new one, and merge the profiles?

Again, thanks!

It worked, and I guess I'll just leave it alone for now. David, if I were to go to IMAP, you say create a new IMAP account. That's with my same old email address? Just kill the old account in Tbird, create the new one, and merge the profiles?

Under no circumstances think you can merge a pop and IMAP account data. It will end badly.

You would have to copy the email you currently have in your Verizon account to "local folders" as removing an account in Thunderbird removes the mail in this folders that hang off it.

AN IMAP account is synchronized to the server. So you have to have enough space on the server to store all your mail. anything you do on one is reflected on the other. So your "new" imap account in Thunderbird using you same email address, will react differently to POP. Right down to the yahoo spam filters being used to move mail to a bulk mail folder.