Having difficulty moving POP3 folders from one Mac to another.
Hi. Please could you guide me through moving my email messages from a POP3 account on one Mac to another? I have an old iMac (late 2015, Monterey) that I am tearing down for parts, but this has been my main Thunderbird computer. It is running the latest version of Thunderbird (153.0.2), as I updated it to do the Export. I am trying to move my email accounts onto my M1 Macbook Pro. When I first installed Thunderbird on the Macbook I was delighted to see that my data and settings for the IMAP accounts had somehow miraculously (to me!) migrated. But I have a POP3 account which has only partially moved across. It seems to be receiving new emails, but all the Inbox history is missing, and other folders such as Drafts and Sent are not there either, I just have Inbox, Spam and Deleted. I have tried your Export/Import method twice, but to no avail. In the expanded profile on my USB stick I can see Mail>mail.oddplanetstudios.co.uk which looks like it might contain all the files and messages. Now I want to move them across into Thunderbird, but I don't know what the steps are to do this. I would be very grateful if you could lead me through this, if it is indeed what I need to do, or give me some directions to do it differently. Many thanks.
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It seems to me that you did not copy your ~/Library/Thunderbird/ folder from your old Mac to the new Mac and paste in the equivalent location ~/Library/ here, which would have been the logic and simple migration mode. Obviously you installed and started Thunderbird on the new Mac, thus creating a virgin profile. Then you created your email accounts, IMAP and POP. An IMAP account automatically synchronises with the server, but a POP account can only download the messages still being on the POP server Inbox.
I advise to copy the account folder mail.oddplanetstudios.co.uk from your old to the new Mac where you paste it temporarily on your desktop. Exit Thunderbird if it is running, then go to ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default-release/Mail/ and replace the existing folder mail.oddplanetstudios.co.uk with the copy from your desktop. When you restart Thunderbird you should find your POP account with its folders and messages in the same state as on the Monterey Mac.
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Thank you, you are a star! All worked perfectly. I discovered two copies of the mail.oddplanetstudios.co.uk folder in the Library, from when I was trying to migrate it, so I deleted them along with the empty folder and replaced them with the one from the desktop. I appreciate how fast you replied to my query. Many thanks.
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