Move them into the Local Folders account in Thunderbird.

When I try to move folders or emails in sbcglobal.net, it only allows me to move them into other folders in sbcglobal.net. It does not seem to allow me to move them anywhere else.

How does this "not allowing" you make itself apparent? Any error messages?

If I right-click, in gives me an option of moving them to other folders in my sbc email. If I try to drag and drop it i get a circle with a slash through it.

That's bizarre. All the folders in Thunderbird are yours and you have implicit rights to write to them.

Please post your settings.

Please add the troubleshooting information to your post To find the Troubleshooting information:

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I don't think the problem is with Thunderbird. I think the problem is that sbcglobal.net does not let me move the email out of sbcglobal.net.

For IMAP mail account I recommend the import export tools.

Export the emails to eml files and use the same tools to import them back into Thunderbird.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/

The add-on does get bogged down on large folders and if it prompts you to stop a script of continue always choose continue. Make sure you have the folder you want to import to selected before trying to import or the menu options will be greyed.

Now why the Tool. Simple really. Export does nothing with the IMAP server. Neither does import. So once you are successfully done you can delete the account from Thunderbird and forget it ever existed. No need to update an account that is going away.