Thunderbird - get all mails

grumpycrab

J_B said:...

BUT, the fact that it hasn't carried over my sent mails from three of the accounts 

Do you mean there's no Sent folder or the folder is empty?  If you fix this please tell me because I'm seeing a friend tomorrow who says he cannot see his Sent emails.  You may have said but are all your accounts IMAP?  One thing I will do tomorrow is refresh my friends IMAP folders in TB (if I can work out how to do that) and also may be worth looking at settings...

J_B

GC - there are no sent folders apart from in the main J B account

All my accounts are POP3

Also, JB had two subfolders which are absent as did the BP a/c at the bottom.

Amusing that the 2nd a/c (Mrs still has the 'nonsense' folder where I direct all the waitrose, matalan etc mails (but she still insists that I check her emails in case she misses something important!!)

grumpycrab

J_B said:

GC - there are no sent folders apart from in the main J B account

Might have to goto TB settings and use the "Place a copy in:" option (see my post) to force creation of Sent folder.  Then go to your old PC and copy the Sent emails from there.

debitcardmayhem

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Export from one and import to t'other. Its in the addons on both and claims to be compatible.

Just tested it in a VM and it seems good , the only thing you may to copy separately is the Local Folders folder

J_B

debitcardmayhem said:

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Just looked - I already have that on the old PC but just tried and can't make it work

Events & Tasks / Export ... does nothing! I also have 'Mozbackup' but that didn't want to work either!

Grrrr

getmore4less

Not on my email pc atm, forget how I set it up I think a mix of imap and pop3. 

 all my accounts sync to their folders.

I think the sent items may all go in one place not the sent for the account in the to:

Will have a check next time I am on 

debitcardmayhem

J_B said:

debitcardmayhem said:

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Just looked - I already have that on the old PC but just tried and can't make it work

Events & Tasks / Export ... does nothing! I also have 'Mozbackup' but that didn't want to work either!

Grrrr

Did you use export profile? it takes a while and did it create a xxxxxxxxxxx.default-yyymmdd folder in the destination directory?

J_B

J_B said:

debitcardmayhem said:

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Just looked - I already have that on the old PC but just tried and can't make it work

Events & Tasks / Export ... does nothing! I also have 'Mozbackup' but that didn't want to work either!

Grrrr

I've uninstalled and reinstalled Im/Ex Tools add on and it now seems to be working - stuff to do this morning, will try later ...

J_B

debitcardmayhem said:

J_B said:

debitcardmayhem said:

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Just looked - I already have that on the old PC but just tried and can't make it work

Events & Tasks / Export ... does nothing! I also have 'Mozbackup' but that didn't want to work either!

Grrrr

Did you use export profile? it takes a while and did it create a xxxxxxxxxxx.default-yyymmdd folder in the destination directory?

Crossed messages, sorry DM - (see above) there seem to be many options - Export all folders / all with structure / profile

Which do I need?? 🤷‍♂️

debitcardmayhem

J_B said:

debitcardmayhem said:

J_B said:

debitcardmayhem said:

How about trying this on your old one and tne new one https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=search

Just looked - I already have that on the old PC but just tried and can't make it work

Events & Tasks / Export ... does nothing! I also have 'Mozbackup' but that didn't want to work either!

Grrrr

Did you use export profile? it takes a while and did it create a xxxxxxxxxxx.default-yyymmdd folder in the destination directory?

Crossed messages, sorry DM - (see above) there seem to be many options - Export all folders / all with structure / profile

Which do I need?? 🤷‍♂️

Duh ????? Did you use export profile