Issues with spectrum email

Yes, you can create an Outlook account alongside the Spectrum account. Then, after doing that, it is possible to transfer all email messages from the Spectrum account to the Outlook account. Post back when you're ready to do that.

Thanks for the quick reply. Does the Thunderbird email go away?

When done, you could remove the Spectrum account, No change in thunderbird. When you are ready to leave spectrum, do this:

1. install the addon, importexporttools NG
2. click file>offline>download to be sure that all spectrum messages are on pc
3. highlight each folder in spectrum account to save, one at a time, and rightclick, select the importexport option to export mbox
4. next, highlight Local Folders, rightclick, and, one at a time, rightclick and select importexport option to import mbox
5. after doing that, spot check to ensure all messages are in Local Folders. Once done, you can remove the spectrum account.
6. now, all spectrum messages are in Local Folders, If you want them on the Outlook account, highlight each folder, select all, and then right click and select COPY to desired outlook folder. Check that all content is on the outlook account, as uploading to IMAP can be problematic
7. once all the message folders have been copied to outlook and you've verified them, you can delete the local folder

As info, when I quit spectrum email, it's done; there's no going back. So I'm guessing that I should completely set up Outlook if that's where I'm going, and back up any emails from spectrum before I quit. But I could set up Outlook, and still keep Spectrum, couldn't I?