Hi Annette,
As far as I can tell, everything is saved. I just updated a day
ago and when I opened the back up version of Thunderbird on my
back up system, the address book, the folder structure (I have 17
sub folders under Inbox) the layout and even the order of message
selection was saved.
On 2/28/2019 4:07 PM, Annette Moore
wrote:
ron, does this save all of your configuration, as well as your
messages? I care more about the configuration than about
actually keeping any of my messages because it took about an
hour for me to get everything I wanted/needed configured to the
way I needed it sinceI have three email accounts. I have the
instructions saved that Richard Wels gave me, but shoot, if I
could back all that up and not have to go through that again
with any clean install of thunderbird on a future new computer,
that would be great!
Annette
On 2/28/2019 1:13 PM, Ron Canazzi
wrote:
Hi Group,
This probably varies from mail program to mail program, but
when using Thunderbird, you can back up almost everything by
doing the following.
1. Close Thunderbird.
2. From the run dialogue, type %appdata% and press enter.
3. You are in the roaming folder. This folder contains all
the application data, settings, address book and e-mails from
Thunderbird.
4. navigate to the folder named Thunderbird and when
highlighted, press control + C to copy that folder.
5. Then paste this folder onto a thumb drive, external hard
drive or some similar device and you have everything backed
up.
6. Now if for some reason, you need a fresh install of
Thunderbird or if you get a new computer and use Thunderbird,
you can simply install Thunderbird and navigate to the Roaming
folder as described in steps 1 through 3 above and paste the
contents of the Thunderbird folder that you have copied into
the Roaming folder.
I do this every few days to keep the mail and settings of
Thunderbird backed up.
On 2/28/2019 1:14 PM, marcio via
Groups.Io wrote:
100% agreed. Very, very well said, indeed.
Now I definitely would like to know how I can backup my
messages. I never did it before just because I never knew it
was even possible. Help me with this, please?
Em 28/02/2019 15:09, Travis
Siegel escreveu:
Wishing something would go away because it doesn't fit
your definition of what is useful is just plain silly.
If that were the case, then I wish narrator would go
away, I whish jaws wold go away, I wish windows would go
away. Hell, I wish microsoft would go away.
\See, it serves no purpose.
There are people who use pop3, and it works just fine for
them. There are definitely use cases where pop3 is a
better fit than imap, and there are use cases where imap
is clearly the better alternative. Wishing one or the
other would go away is just ignorance talking.
If you don't wish to use it, then don't, but that doesn't
mean that others who are fully aware of what they're
getting, and do wish to use it shouldn't do so. I for one
much prefer pop3, for several reasons, including disk
usage, security, issues, ease of backup, and others.
When folks talk about folks loosing years worth of emails
because they used pop3, my question is did those folks
ever backup their mail? I'm thinking no. Sure, it's not
the easiest thing to move mail from one email client to
another, but you're just as likely to loose all your imap
messages if your email provider goes bye-bye as well, and
nobody here can tell me that's never happened.
It's six of one, and half dozen of the other, use what
works for you, and allow others to use what works for
them.
On 2/28/2019 12:47 PM, Rosemarie Chavarria wrote:
With my old internet
provider, I had a pop 3 account. After I got to a
certain amount of messages, my email started
bouncing. I don't think people are using pop so much
anymore but I could be wrong. I wish pop 3 would go
away too.
Yes you can. I have about 200 thousand
messages on gmail's server and it doesn't really
complain at me. You can also clean them up using
iMap as well. I use iMap and wish that pop 3
would just go away and die. All the email and
attachments are backed up in the cloud and no
matter what device as stated you are on you can
always get your mail. I lost over 3 years worth
of messages once so am not going back to pop3.
On 28 Feb 2019, at 7:49, Gene wrote:
I don't use IMAP so
others can answer the question. But I'm
sure you can delete messages if you wish.
As I understand it, you can keep a large
number on the server if you wish.
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Em 28/02/2019 12:34,
Gene escreveu:
unless you want a
permanent collection of all your
received messages off site.
Does it means that
using IMAP I won't be able to delete any
message?
Cheers,
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