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Unable to switch POP account to IMAP after domain migration

Hello, I’m encountering an issue after migrating my domain and professional email service. My address was originally hosted by Cabanova and configured in Thunderbird. I… (read more)

Hello,

I’m encountering an issue after migrating my domain and professional email service.

My address was originally hosted by Cabanova and configured in Thunderbird. I recently transferred the domain and email hosting to OVH, which caused the old mail server configuration to stop working.

Here’s the current situation:

The account in Thunderbird is still using a POP server (ssl0.ovh.net – port 995), while OVH uses IMAP (port 993).

I cannot change the server type from POP to IMAP within the existing account settings.

When I try to add a new account, Thunderbird completely freezes after I click “Continue” and never gives me access to “Manual Configuration.”

I also cannot delete the existing account because it contains all my previous local emails that I need to keep.

At the moment, I’m able to send emails from this account via OVH, but I don’t receive any incoming messages.

What I’d like to do is simply update the server configuration to OVH’s IMAP settings, without losing my existing local messages or recreating the entire profile.

Could you please let me know if there’s a way to:

Force an existing POP account to switch to IMAP,

Or safely recreate the account as IMAP without losing local data and without Thunderbird freezing during setup?

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

Asked by Matys Hoffman 12 hours ago

Answered by Ed 4 hours ago

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Blocking list

Hello, I speak french therefore sorry for my english ! I have since 3 days, the impossibility to send a mail. I always receive an error message like this : L’e… (read more)

Hello, I speak french therefore sorry for my english ! I have since 3 days, the impossibility to send a mail. I always receive an error message like this :

L’envoi du message a échoué. Une erreur est survenue lors de l’envoi de l’e-mail : erreur du serveur SMTP. Le serveur a répondu : bluewin.ch mailout-004.p.bluenet.ch Swisscom AG sc774: Blocklisting in effect.

This have been caused as I wanted to send a message to a list of more of 100 personn and the system of my provider (Swisscom Bluewin) blocked me.

I contacted them explained the situation and the have deleted the blocking list and if I go on the email of the provider Swisscom I am free to send message without problem.

BUT in Mozilla Thunderbird i am still blocked with the above mentioned error message !

I have controlled all my SMTP info and they are correct, I have try to disabled the Bitdefender security but no way it remains blocked.

My question is, is this blocking list only remaining in Mozilla Thunderbird and for how long time or someone can help me to cancel this blocking list in Mozilla Thunderbird ?

Many thanks in advance for your help

Clapas

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I have two email accounts, one is hotmail.com, the other is on outlook.com The SMTP for the outlook account works fine, but Thunderbird puts that same smtp details into … (read more)

I have two email accounts, one is hotmail.com, the other is on outlook.com

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