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How to fix archiving folders by year?
Thunderbird stopped archiving by the year regardless the setting. It simply moves all mails to the archive root folder regardless of settings.
It last archived emails from 2022 correctly. 2023's ...
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Thunderbird : moving emails from a "virtual folder" to my "local folders" does removes those emails from server
I want to archive emails (IMAP) from year 2021 - which means I want to copy them to a local folder, and have them removed from my Gmail account.
I've setup a virtual folder on all emails from my GMAIL ...
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How to stop Thunderbird from checking for new email (is it possible to archive an account?)
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I have an old email account that doesn't exist anymore. Its messages are saved in Thunderbird.
I want to keep that account in Thunderbird. However, because it doesn't exist anymore, I don't ...
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How to automatically archive to Thunderbird Local Folder?
I have set up a new account with IMAP protocol, and configured archiving this way:
Account settings -> [email protected]
-> Copies & Folders
-> ...
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Automatically remove old e-mail messages with Thunderbird (from IMAP server only, not locally)
Given
IMAP E-Mail provider/server with storage quota
Thunderbird e-mail client
I'd like to automatically remove the oldest messages from the server only (and keep them locally).
But Thunderbird ...
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Archiving Entire Email Account with Thunderbird/Outlook
Can somebody recommend an elegant email archiving solution per below?
I have a very large dormant email account I need to archive. Right now it is sitting as an unused account in my T-bird but it ...
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Thunderbird: how to back up everything, including attachments
I want to create a backup snapshot of everything I have on Gmail (preferably including Contacts), in a form that is later browseable by Thunderbird. This should also include all attachments. The ...
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Thunderbird doesn’t allow archiving some mails
Thunderbird’s Archived Messages feature allows to move mails into the "Archives" folder by clicking the Archive button or pressing the a key.
For some of my mails, this doesn’t work. For these mails, ...
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How to preserve an authentic copy of business/work emails as a form of evidence?
It has been stated elsewhere (link to an example) that work emails used in the course of regular business are admissible as evidence in UK and EU courts.
I have a large number of emails that are the ...
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Find other mails of the same thread in Thunderbird
I really love the threaded view in Mozilla Thunderbird. Because of this, I store my sent mails in the inbox, so I can move a whole thread to an archive folder in one drag and drop.
Sometimes I get ...
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Archiving your mails with Thunderbird
I use Mozilla Thunderbird since years now. I read some articles about how to organize your mailbox most efficiently for freelancers and got an quite good-working approach for me now.
I leave ...
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Read only email archive
I have a big gmail email database and i want archive it, and use in read only mode. I want to use like thunderbird, but without structure modifying functionality or email deletion possibility, just in ...
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Is there some way to archive individual folders with thunderbird (IMAP)?
My email account is on my own server (cpanel- shared hosting). I use it as an IMAP account and I can increase the size to more or less whatever I want.
I have lots of old folders containing client ...
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Gmail Archive versus Thunderbird Archive?
Can anyone explain the difference here? I have my Gmail accounts setup to use Imap but it appears my archive in gmail is not the same as my archive in Thunderbird?
Perhaps I am missing something ...
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