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Move large number of emails from active Inbox to a local folder

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wideseen
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My Thunderbird is IMAP'ed to my generic usa.net email server. It downloads everything to Thunderbird serving as backup only. I have set that local delete does not delete on the server.

It has now amassed ~200.000 emails in the active Thunderbird Inbox. (No, I don't want to delete any !:o) I want to move the ~200.000 emails to a local folder not affecting the ongoing download sync from usa.net. The local folder is to be offline.

How do I bulk move the ~200.000 emails in the active Thunderbird Inbox to a local Thunderbird folder? - not deleting anything locally or on the server - keeping the sync download from the usa.net server running onwards into the now purged Inbox - not having the sync re-download from the server (defeats my intended purpose #:o)

My Thunderbird is IMAP'ed to my generic usa.net email server. It downloads everything to Thunderbird serving as backup only. I have set that local delete does not delete on the server. It has now amassed ~200.000 emails in the active Thunderbird Inbox. (No, I don't want to delete any !:o) I want to move the ~200.000 emails to a local folder not affecting the ongoing download sync from usa.net. The local folder is to be offline. ------ How do I bulk move the ~200.000 emails in the active Thunderbird Inbox to a local Thunderbird folder? - not deleting anything locally or on the server - keeping the sync download from the usa.net server running onwards into the now purged Inbox - not having the sync re-download from the server (defeats my intended purpose #:o)

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david
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I am unclear on what you are asking. Since you are using IMAP, my suggested steps are:

  1. click file/offline/download <== this is only to ensure that all message content and headers are on PC
  2. after this, all messages are on PC .
  3. install the importexport NG addon if not already done
  4. highlight Local Folders, rightclick and select importexport menu to import mbox, and then locate and select the inbox folder from the profile at the imapmail<accountname> folder

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wideseen
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Oh, I was afraid I over-explained §:o)) I will check your kind suggestion out ...

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