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Transfer Windows 7 POP3 account to new installation of Thunderbird on my Windows 11 PC.

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  • April 7, 2022 at 2:49 PM
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  • Up2you2
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    • April 7, 2022 at 2:49 PM
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    I presently have a working POP3 account on my Windows 7 laptop. I want to transfer this account to my Window 11 PC.
    It contains many folders and emails.


    On my Windows 11 I have downloaded Thunderbird, but all my emails are just in a few folders.


    I need to know please, of a system/process whereby I can back up this POP3 data, and transfer it in situ, into my Thunderbird account which is IMAP?

  • graba April 7, 2022 at 3:11 PM

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  • Up2you2
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    • April 10, 2022 at 5:48 AM
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    This issue has been painstakingly, finally resolved:

    AskWoody


    In fact I feel it is so important for others, that this solution should be posted on your site as a new topic.

    But I don't know what the etiquette is in doing so, and secondly just how to display it, in the exact same manner.

    Could you please come back to me on these points?

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    • April 10, 2022 at 1:35 PM
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    At the moment your link is just to the main page and gives no clues what helped you. (This has the taste of advertisement) Also I think this is just the german thunderbird help forum, there are plenty of english sites/forums around.

    I have no idea why you come here - and I think the terms and conditions are also in german... did you read them?!

    Sorry, I learn every day from the Mods ;)

    Sorry I don't want to be mean, but I'll just focus on helping people here in german they have enough trouble.

    Greetings, dErzOnk

    Edited once, last by dErzOnk (April 10, 2022 at 2:26 PM).

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    • April 10, 2022 at 2:04 PM
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    dErzOnk

    Bevor du dich hier im Forum anmeldest, kannst du oben rechts neben dem Anmelde-Button zwischen Deutsch und English auswählen. Insofern stimmt deine obige Aussage nicht zwangsläufig.

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  • Up2you2
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    • April 10, 2022 at 4:53 PM
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    Quote from dErzOnk

    At the moment your link is just to the main page and gives no clues what helped you. (This has the taste of advertisement) Also I think this is just the german thunderbird help forum, there are plenty of english sites/forums around.

    I have no idea why you come here - and I think the terms and conditions are also in german... did you read them?!

    Sorry, I learn every day from the Mods ;)

    Sorry I don't want to be mean, but I'll just focus on helping people here in german they have enough trouble.

    Greetings, dErzOnk

    Sorry:

    Questions: Browsers and desktop software – other

    Cannot set up an existing account.

    Posted on every forum on the planet, two weeks of work, if someone has the same problem I'm sure they'd be really happy to know of this solution.

    What should be in theory a general knowledge question, believe me isn't.i

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    • April 12, 2022 at 2:22 AM
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    Quote from Up2you2

    Posted on every forum on the planet, two weeks of work, if someone has the same problem I'm sure they'd be really happy to know of this solution.

    Sorry to say that but if you put 2 weeks of work in the solution why don't you write a short manual. No one will read the many posts which were a lot of work (mostly for others)... Anyway this is why I don't like to go on in English support.. Sorry my english is not that good. It takes takes more time for me to comprehend and in the end i realize: You moved Thunderbird from a W7 to a W10/W11 and changed from POP3 to IMAP? Also changed your authentication mode...

    tbh: it doesn't seem to be a big deal to me if you do it step by step... but as I said, if you think this is worth sum it up, post the link and we can use it. But for now people here will not even find the solution even if they have this special problem.

    Greetings dErzOnk

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    • April 12, 2022 at 10:38 AM
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    this is why I don't like to go on in English support

    Hallo :)

    es ist ja auch wenig sinnvoll, in einem deutschen Forum in Englisch zu korrespondieren, wenn es weltweit unzählige englischsprachige Foren gibt, z.B. das offizielle Thunderbird Support Forum oder der Bereich Thunderbird Support in den mozillaZine Forums.

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    • April 12, 2022 at 12:36 PM
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    /*

    There may well be an advantage in corresponding in English even in a German-speaking forum. To some degree it protects you against this specific type of alleged "helpers" who comment a lot but do not help at all. ;)

    */

    Wer wenig oder gar nichts kann, schiebt's auf den Antiviruskram.

    (Compuzius, Buch 5)

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    • April 12, 2022 at 1:02 PM
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    Quote from Susi to visit

    who comment a lot but do not help at all

    Sprichst du da aus eigener Erfahrung? 8o

    Anscheinend ist es hier erlaubt auf englisch oder sonst einer Sprache unterwegs zu sein... hätte mich auch gewundert wenn graba da was übersieht.

    Gerade Menschen denen es schwer fFällt eine Sprache zu sprechen, ob nun Deutsch oder Englisch soll ja auch geholfen werden. Aber der Thread hat zuerst für mich nach Spam ausgesehen und daher mal beim nachgehakt.

    Siehe da der User ist zwar fleißig am posten, aber die Eigeninitiative tendiert gegen null... Wenn du Dir den anderen Thread anguckst ist es echt hart was die Leute ihm dort geholfen haben, Schritt für Schritt. Das hätte ich auf englisch nur mit viel zu viel Aufwand machen können... Aber das ganze als zwei Wochen Arbeit von sich zu verkaufen ist etwas übertrieben.

    what ever...

    Grüße dErzOnk

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    • April 12, 2022 at 1:48 PM
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    Wenn du Dir den anderen Thread anguckst ist es echt hart was die Leute ihm dort geholfen haben, Schritt für Schritt.

    Für mich sind beide verlinkten Threads ein und der selbe.

    Topic: Cannot set up an existing account. @ AskWoody

    Dennoch ein bemerkenswertes Forum und meine Hochachtung für ein Durchhaltevermögen vom 19. März bis 9. April!!

    Vor zehn Jahren hatte ich noch diese Ausdauer Hilfe für Blondinen Ü40 - wo sind meine mails [erl.] , aber nicht mehr heute =O

    Wenn es sich für einen TE als derart schwierig erweist, ein Profil zu übertragen, dann ziehe ich heute Fernwartung vor. Damit kann man sich mit einer Stunde Aufwand solche Monster-Threads ersparen.

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    • April 12, 2022 at 2:07 PM
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    Für mich sind beide verlinkten Threads ein und der selbe.

    Sind sie auch, der TE hatte erst einen Link auf die Startseite gepostet (#2)... dann hat er zweimal den gleichen Link in einem Post (#5).

    Wenn der Fragende noch nicht mal Korrektur ließt, ob es nun Rechtschreibung oder Formatierungsfehler sind, merkt man schnell das es sehr mühselig wird zu helfen.

    Ich habe hier im Forum aber bisher wirklich viele fleißige und freundliche Helfer gesehen, finde ich super und vielen Dank für die Mühen!

    Aber ich denke auch das "klein und fein" dem Ganzen gut tut, lieber bei einem Thema richtig helfen, als nur mit Halbwissen rumprobieren.

    Grüße dErzOnk

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    • April 12, 2022 at 6:41 PM
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    Quote from schlingo

    oder der Bereich Thunderbird Support in den mozillaZine Forums.

    Gerade gesehen Resolved - Cannot set up an existing account.

    "Posted on every forum on the planet, two weeks of work,...." :D

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