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Why dose thunderbird have to down load all my emails every time i open it

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Bigbudge
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I have a new laptop and loaded thunderbird and it wants to download all my emails every time I open it. How do I get it to save them locally on my laptop

I have a new laptop and loaded thunderbird and it wants to download all my emails every time I open it. How do I get it to save them locally on my laptop

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Toad-Hall
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If you use a POP mail account then all mail is downloaded from server and stored in your Thunderbird Profile folder.


If you use IMAP, you see a remote view of folders by subscribing to see folders on server. Headers are downloaded and when you select to view email, it is retrieved from server and stored in a temp cache. The emails are not stored in the Thunderbird Profile folder and so cannot be read when offline.

However, if you synchronise those subscribed folders then a copy is downloaded to Thunderbird Profile folder. See more info on this here: