Retrieve my emails from Thunderbird
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Hello everyone,
I've browsed the forum without finding answers to my problem. (I hope I didn't search "wrongly"...)
I installed Thunderbird at my workplace, and when I created my main account, I didn't check the "leave messages on the server" option. As a result, during my first "check" for emails, all my emails were downloaded to Thunderbird and consequently deleted from my mailbox...
Question: is it possible to put my emails back into my main mailbox while keeping the original dates and senders?
A friend told me there is a Thunderbird "module" that performs this function, but I don't know the name of this application and can't find it.
Thank you in advance.
I've browsed the forum without finding answers to my problem. (I hope I didn't search "wrongly"...)
I installed Thunderbird at my workplace, and when I created my main account, I didn't check the "leave messages on the server" option. As a result, during my first "check" for emails, all my emails were downloaded to Thunderbird and consequently deleted from my mailbox...
Question: is it possible to put my emails back into my main mailbox while keeping the original dates and senders?
A friend told me there is a Thunderbird "module" that performs this function, but I don't know the name of this application and can't find it.
Thank you in advance.
Configuration: Windows XP Firefox 2.0.0.14
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Hi to you,
Dubcek, and Manu, I'm just stopping by quickly to help you (not to take it badly).
Here’s how I managed to recover Thunderbird messages from the disk of a broken machine to the new machine. It looks long to read but it's actually simple, and comfortable because you don’t worry about whether you’re messing something up. I had previously searched, maybe poorly, for a solution of this kind on the internet. Hence this post.
To transfer Thunderbird (TB) messages from an old machine to a new machine.
This method uses TB’s “Local Folders” as a transit area. It avoids overwriting the mail folder.
Reminder: a “Mail” folder of TB can be found for example
- under XP: in C:\Documents and Settings\Beatrice\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\aee3sb1k.default\Mail
- under Vista: in C:\Users\Jean\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\snfk1t22.default\Mail
To see it, go to “Accessories > Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View”, and request to view hidden folders
Procedure
1 - Obtain the old “Mail” folder (from the old machine) on a USB key or USB drive or other
2 - Log into the Windows session of the concerned user Toto
3 - Launch TB for the first time by creating the Toto account [uncheck “use global inbox”!!!] [uncheck “download now”]
4 - Display the properties of “Local Folders”
5 - Copy/paste the current content of “Local Directory” into a notepad file so it can be restored later
6 - Point [“Browse”] the “Local Directory” to the “Mail / pop......” file from the old “Mail” folder
7 - Close and relaunch TB. The old messages appear in one or more folders of “Local Folders”.
8 - One by one, select [Edit > Select > All] the old messages and move them [right click > Move To] to the Toto account, in the “inbox” folder, or if needed into folders that you have created beforehand.
9 - Do the same (6 to 8) with the other “Mail / pop......” files and with the “Mail / Local Folders” file from the old “Mail” folder
10 - Finally, rewrite the original content of the “Local Directory” of “Local Folders,” saved in the notepad.
Edited on 29/02/2008 at 18:08
source https://www.clubic.com/forum/t/thunderbird-recuperer-ses-mails-apres-un-crash/73920
For me, this is the best solution, which indeed, having practiced it, sometimes seems long, but it's not ;) .
However this isn’t exactly cool :) well it’s not a big deal at all, but it’s not very cool, for the two forums, and moreover, while doing the searches, you know well that internet users might stumble upon it, the essential thing was that it made me smile.
--
“Don’t say yourself what you don’t want to hear from another.” “Seneca” “PloufPlouf²”
I’m cool and you? ;)
Dubcek, and Manu, I'm just stopping by quickly to help you (not to take it badly).
Here’s how I managed to recover Thunderbird messages from the disk of a broken machine to the new machine. It looks long to read but it's actually simple, and comfortable because you don’t worry about whether you’re messing something up. I had previously searched, maybe poorly, for a solution of this kind on the internet. Hence this post.
To transfer Thunderbird (TB) messages from an old machine to a new machine.
This method uses TB’s “Local Folders” as a transit area. It avoids overwriting the mail folder.
Reminder: a “Mail” folder of TB can be found for example
- under XP: in C:\Documents and Settings\Beatrice\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\aee3sb1k.default\Mail
- under Vista: in C:\Users\Jean\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\snfk1t22.default\Mail
To see it, go to “Accessories > Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options > View”, and request to view hidden folders
Procedure
1 - Obtain the old “Mail” folder (from the old machine) on a USB key or USB drive or other
2 - Log into the Windows session of the concerned user Toto
3 - Launch TB for the first time by creating the Toto account [uncheck “use global inbox”!!!] [uncheck “download now”]
4 - Display the properties of “Local Folders”
5 - Copy/paste the current content of “Local Directory” into a notepad file so it can be restored later
6 - Point [“Browse”] the “Local Directory” to the “Mail / pop......” file from the old “Mail” folder
7 - Close and relaunch TB. The old messages appear in one or more folders of “Local Folders”.
8 - One by one, select [Edit > Select > All] the old messages and move them [right click > Move To] to the Toto account, in the “inbox” folder, or if needed into folders that you have created beforehand.
9 - Do the same (6 to 8) with the other “Mail / pop......” files and with the “Mail / Local Folders” file from the old “Mail” folder
10 - Finally, rewrite the original content of the “Local Directory” of “Local Folders,” saved in the notepad.
Edited on 29/02/2008 at 18:08
source https://www.clubic.com/forum/t/thunderbird-recuperer-ses-mails-apres-un-crash/73920
For me, this is the best solution, which indeed, having practiced it, sometimes seems long, but it's not ;) .
However this isn’t exactly cool :) well it’s not a big deal at all, but it’s not very cool, for the two forums, and moreover, while doing the searches, you know well that internet users might stumble upon it, the essential thing was that it made me smile.
--
“Don’t say yourself what you don’t want to hear from another.” “Seneca” “PloufPlouf²”
I’m cool and you? ;)
I want to retrieve all my Thunderbird emails from my old PC to have them on the new one.
I have 4 email accounts on Thunderbird: 1 from Free and 3 from Hotmail.
When I check my email folders in "Mail", there are 8, and I don't know what to do.
How can I figure out which ones correspond to which account?
Thank you :)