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Keeping hotmail emails after deleting account

geoffetherton

I have installed Thunderbird on my MacBook Air (Tahoe 26.4) and synced all my hotmail emails from an account which I wish to delete. Do I need to do anything before deleting the account i.e. will they stay in Thunderbird or is there a setting I need to change first?

I have installed Thunderbird on my MacBook Air (Tahoe 26.4) and synced all my hotmail emails from an account which I wish to delete. Do I need to do anything before deleting the account i.e. will they stay in Thunderbird or is there a setting I need to change first?

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I'm not sure what you mean by "synced all my hotmail emails from an account", but let me put it this way:

If you have moved all messages you want to keep out of the unwanted account and into a wanted account or to Local Folders, you can then safely Remove the Hotmail account from Thunderbird.

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To be safe, COPY (not move) to Local Folders and then check that every message was moved. Yes, they should still be safe in the account, but my preference is to eliminate doubt and put in Local Folders. That lets me delete the old account.

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