Please help. I am on Linux Mint, NOT WINDOWS. I Hate Windows. I never had an issue with Thunderbird until I realized a few days ago that this dog-gone IMAP is not allowing me to have an autonomous and completely separate email experience on my local PC. I WANT to completely do whatever I want to email on my local PC WITHOUT it affecting my online email. I ALSO would appreciate that whatever I do locally is not synched with the email server. If I want to delete an email locally but keep it on the server, UNLESS I am on the server, I should be able to do whatever I want locally. I thought that was THE ENTIRE REASON for a local email client!!!!! I DON'T WANT local email to be synched with the email server from my ISP. I also thought that having a local email client meant my emails were downloaded so I can browse, sort, and deal with email locally without being online!!!! ARRGGHHHH... SO, I thought that id I move all my INBOX emails to a LOCAL FOLDERS, "Inbox" folder, the problem would be solved. Wellllll, ALL of my freaking emails are gone! Please help me, please. I am so upset with Thunderbird right now, I would really appreciate any help in retrieving my emails. I also want to revert back to a POP 3 email and dog-gone Thunderbirt is not showing an option to DO THAT!!