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Moving messages from webmail into thunderbird

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rob86a
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My Windows 10 desktop failed and went into a shop for repair. I have years of Thunderbird messages on it. The repair is complete and Thunderbird is working well again.

However, for several weeks I was only able to send and receive messages via my ISP Webmail. I would now like to move these messages into Thunderbird on my repaired desktop computer.

I cannot find an elegant way to do this. I know I send forward or resend all of these messages from Webmail to the main address on the desktop and then move them into the appropriate In or Out folders. But, I have downloaded all of these messages onto a flash drive and would like to use it to load the messages.

I would appreciate any advice about the best way to do this.

Thank you in advance.

My Windows 10 desktop failed and went into a shop for repair. I have years of Thunderbird messages on it. The repair is complete and Thunderbird is working well again. However, for several weeks I was only able to send and receive messages via my ISP Webmail. I would now like to move these messages into Thunderbird on my repaired desktop computer. I cannot find an elegant way to do this. I know I send forward or resend all of these messages from Webmail to the main address on the desktop and then move them into the appropriate In or Out folders. But, I have downloaded all of these messages onto a flash drive and would like to use it to load the messages. I would appreciate any advice about the best way to do this. Thank you in advance.

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Matt
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add your account a second time as IMAP. (I am assuming it is POP now) Do not remove of delete anything.

Allow the server messages to synchronize to Thunderbird. Then drag your selected messages from the IMAP folder to the appropriate location in Thunderbird. That will "move" them as in delete them from the server. You can also right click messages and select copy or move to achieve the same thing or just copy.

Once you have done that you can remove the IMAP mail account from Thunderbird.

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