Thanks. I was able to install the Import/Export addon using the 3rd method. However, I am not sure how to proceed with actually importing the messages I exported from Windows Live Mail. I did a quick test and imported the messages associated with the email account that has the fewest messages. It put them in the Imported mail folder that I had created under local folders, It was at this point that I realized I I wanted the folders for each email account to go under a folder structure for that email account. Unfortunately, even though Thunderbird somehow "learned" about the 4 email accounts that I used with Windows Live Mail, there are not a set of folders set up for each of those accounts. In Windows Live Mail (and most of the other email programs I've used, once the email account was defined, a set of standard folders (Inbox, Drafts, Sen, etc) was created for each email account.

How do I create the folders for my 4 email accounts? It's not intuitive. I have attached screen prints showing my Thunderbird screen (without the account folders) and Windows Live Mail (with the account folders) Can you explain how to create these folders and have them tied to the appropriate account so that when I download emails from the server, they will go in the correct inbox.

I could not find this information in the Help web page for Thunderbird. Perhaps I am not navigating the Help page properly, or perhaps this info isn't covered there.

Thanks, but that's impossible because there are no accounts shown in the Folder Pane. Please see the first screen shot above. The only thing shown in the folder pane are a few Local Folders and an Imported folder that I created earlier for importing emails.

The only place I see the accounts is when I click on the down arrow to the right of Get Messages. I also see the accounts when I click on the Thunderbird Menu and then Options and Account settings. I have a couple of issues involving some of the settings, but they can wait until we get this folder issue resolved. Once I get the account folders created, how do I copy/move any folders that I import? After I briefly imported a few folders as part of a test, I tried to figure out how to copy/move these folders, but I struck out trying. I tried right clicking on 1 or more of the imported folders but there were no options like copy to, etc.

To be completely honest, I don't know how the accounts got defined in Thunderbird. I alluded to that in my very first post in this thread. The only types of importing I tried were the following: 1) Under Tools/Import, I tried "Import everything" but I got a result of "nothing to import"or words to that effect. Is that the Import/Export Wizard you mentioned? 2) Then after installing an add-on named ImportExportTools, I imported some messages that I had exported from WLM.

So my best guess is that Thunderbird did some kind of automatic account import. Either that, or somebody snuck in my house and did it while I was sleeping. I guess you are saying that the automatic process doesn't work very well.

That said, how do I get rid of the accounts? Once I do that and then see how the File/New/Existing Mail Account goes, I may or may not have any questions about some of the data that was in the accounts (like SMTP server information)

Thanks again for the quick response. I will delete the accounts and then manually redefine them. The only question I can anticipate once I get that done is that I will begin to import the messages I export from my old client and I need to know how to copy/move those messages from the imported folder into the folders associated with the accounts. I've tried to find a way to do it but haven't found anything.

Please take a look at this screen shot. As you should see, I have successfully defined all 4 of my email acconts to Thunderbird and the are visible in the Folder Pane.

I also imported several mail folders for one of my accounts and have begun copying them to the account folder structure.

I said copied because I wasn't successful moving them. It doesn't matter whether I hold down the CTRL key when I left click on a folder and drag it to the intended destination; it does a copy. If I right click, when I drag the folder to the intended destination, a menu pops up with a lot of choices, including the ImportExportTools Addon, but none of those choices say "Move to folder".

So I've decided to stick with copying the folders. This has raised another question: Look at the screen shot again. Some of the originals of copied folders are now in Local Folders, while others remained in the Imported Folders. I don't recall doing anything different, so can you explain this phenomenon? It may be a moot point, because I plan to delete the original folders once they've all been copied into the account folder. But I'd simply like to understand the different behavior.

I'm hopeful that if you resolve these questions, I may be good to go. I've gotten a feel for actually using Thunderbird for reading messages, and-I've discovered another add-on for removing duplicate emails. Thanks again for all your assistance.