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URGENT HELP NEEDED! My email account is being closed by Spectrum..how do I secure my accounts on Thunderbird? (save my 100,000 emails permanently)

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URGENT! My emails are from 5 roadrunner.com (former mail.twc.com) New owner Spectrum is closing us out of our accounts. How can I protect my 15 GB of emails?? Will they disappear if I can no longer access roadrunner? I'm not sure if the server will be swept, but it's in the works. Please tell me how I can bulk save these lifetime of emails...fast! Thank you! p.s. I am computer illiterate and very nervous! I will appreciate step-by-step. (I thought I was safe downloading them to my computer with Thunderbird, but now I think I need to do more to secure them locally.....thank you!

URGENT! My emails are from 5 roadrunner.com (former mail.twc.com) New owner Spectrum is closing us out of our accounts. How can I protect my 15 GB of emails?? Will they disappear if I can no longer access roadrunner? I'm not sure if the server will be swept, but it's in the works. Please tell me how I can bulk save these lifetime of emails...fast! Thank you! p.s. I am computer illiterate and very nervous! I will appreciate step-by-step. (I thought I was safe downloading them to my computer with Thunderbird, but now I think I need to do more to secure them locally.....thank you!

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If the Account is IMAP Export them from Thunderbird as MBOX files using this addon https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=ss

You can then import them back into Thunderbird using the same tool to the "Local Folders" account and from then on it will be up to you to make appropriate backups.

If the account is POP you already have local copies that are not connected to the server. but that does not preclude the Export process as that will then allow you to remove the original account from Thunderbird.

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