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Gmail and Thunderbird Help

17 years ago

I accessing my gmail through the website and then I set up Thunderbird to use as my client. Well, I REALLY hate it and want to go back to accessing my email on the web but now Thunderbird has all my emails and I can't figure out how to restore them to my gmail on the web.

And every time I go into Thunderbird to try to do it, it just takes away and loads the new mail that I have on the web.

Some one told me to foward them to myself but I tried that and every single time it stops at 99%. Also, won't forwarding them to myself just put them into Thunderbird again since I have to have that program open to forward them so it'll be open to receive those emails?

I would really appreciate some help with this!

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jerry_nj
17 years ago
Without looking, on the run, you can set Thunderbird so that it will not access mail until you request it to, that's the way I do it, look under "Tools" "Options" and look for something about getting email

Then, look for "export" in Thunderbird, one of the drop-down menus, you should be able to export all your email files, that will not erase them, just make them available to other uses. Now, I can't say if your new email client will import the Thunderbird output, but if not: "shame on your new email client".
ms_minnamouse
Original Author
17 years ago
This is all very good advice but see... I'm special.

I can't find the option to not let TB access mail until I request it to.

And I also can't find an export option anywhere.
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Thanks, I really depend on the excellent help I get here, it is appreciated. That said, I hope someone else using AT&T for an ISP and is happy pitches in. I am keeping for now to retain my email address, one I've used for at least 15+ years. Unfortunately, it appears AT&T is working on getting out of the ISP business (what, just wireless now?). They shut down the brand Worldnet, yet my 2.0 versions of Thunderbird address the "postoffice" and "mailhost" with "worldnet" as part of the address. But, it isn't working on my Thunderbird 3.0 version. I will try to figure something out tonight. My quick look last night at the AT&T help on the web said "pop and smtp with att.jahoo.com" was the magic. But that may be only if you use their DSL... not sure, seems strange. I have DSL form my local phone company, and it offers all the services Worldnet used to offer, I just am reluctant to change may address and lose contact with many I don't communicate with often... but AT&T is pushing me that way. I have all my personal email on Thunderbird, I use Outlook for business email. I suppose I can move the business email on to Thunderbird too (not as versatile as Outlook) but have not checked on how that is done. It appears one can't have two instances of Thunderbird on one computer. Maybe one can have one Thunderbird with multiple "accounts". I know Outlook provides for multiple accounts in one instance of Outlook, but I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in Thunderbird. Outlook is clearly the "industrial strength" email client... maybe Outlook Express has some of the same capabilities... I have never used it.
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bob414
17 years ago
in thunderbird click tools, account settings, server settings under your gmail, then uncheck automatically download messages.
jerry_nj
17 years ago
Bob414,
That's it, now for the export. I see there isn't an "export" function/tool, one has to find the mail folders and simply copy them somewhere else, e.g., into the mail folders of another email client, or into another email client via its Import function/tool.

Thunderbird does a "good job" of hiding the mail folders. To find the path go again to "account settings" (another way of getting there is to right click your mail folder directory, then click properties ) When at "account settings" highlight "local folders", this will give you a path to local folders in the right hand side of the account settings dialog box. There click "browse" that will open a file manager style window. There you'll see both local folders and something else that holds the folders created for In, Out, Sent, Trash, and all the other personal folders you created there. In my case it is a folder titled: "postoffice.worldnet..." Clicking on that you should see the names of all your folders. If you want to move this elsewhere I suggest you right click "postoffice..." and say copy to wherever you want it.

In my case (typical I think) the path is: My Computer/C/ Documents and Settings/My Name/application data/thunderbird/profiles/mail/ here are two folders "Local" and "Postoffice.."
Hope this help.
Jerry

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