icon will change to a two black screen icon. Quick method.in bottom status bar, click on far left two blue screen icon to go into offline mode. Then go into 'Offline' mode and folders will get synchronised. 'Download messages for offline use when going offline?'.'Menu icon' > 'Options' > 'Options' > Advanced' > 'network & Disc Space' tab.You would need to synchronise all folders for offline use. Usually, imap mail accounts only download headers and when you select to see emails they are retriebed from the server and put in a cache to faciltate viewing, but they are not actually stored in your profile. Right click on imap mail account and select 'Subscribe'. Imap mail account sees a remote view of the folders on the server. Note some servers require you to select that imap option in webmail account first. Menu icon > New Messages > Existing mail account Repeat moving webmail emails into Inbox, downloading to Thunderbird and moving into new folder. Then in Thunderbird, click on 'Get Messages' to download all of those emails into the Pop mail account Inbox.Ĭreate a suitably named folder in 'Local Folders' mail account and move all emails out of Inbox into that folder. Select a folder - (not Inbox) and move all emails into server 'Inbox' Logon to webmail account using a browser. Then it is easy to select all emails and move as a block or if a lot of emails, in chunks. This just makes it easier when you are downloading loads of emails and do not want to mix them up. Move all emails out of Inbox into that folder, so the Inbox is empty. Note all emails downloaded to a pop mail account are automatically stored in your Thunderbird profile folder, but as you may want to delete that pop mail account at a later date, I would suggest you follow instructions to move them into Local Folders, although this could be done at a later date.Ĭreate folder in 'Local Folders' mail account in Thunderbird. But you can work with it.Ĭontinue with the POP mail account and do the following. This is not a Thunderbird quirk, it is how all pop mail accounts work. POP mail accounts can only get access and download from the server Inbox.

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