Talktalk email stopping - Thunderbird

Yorkie1

I have an ancient TalkTalk (@tinyonline) email address which TT are finally (and probably understandably) declining to allow access to without payment of an ongoing fee, as I am not a TT subscriber. Email Transition FAQs - TalkTalk Help & Support

TT has provided this link to advise on how to download emails, contacts, etc, from the TT account before I lose access to it. Downloading your Personal Data

However I wonder whether I need to do this. I access the email account (and the two gmail emails I use) via the Thunderbird mail suite.

At the moment I can see all my old TT emails in Thunderbird.

Does anyone know whether I will lose those emails within Thunderbird once the email account is closed, or are they essentially already downloaded within Thunderbird and will still remain visible there?

I haven't used the TT account for anything significant for years, and only through Thunderbird anyway, so losing access to the address book and intranet account doesn't bother me.

bob2302

Yorkie1 said:

However I wonder whether I need to do this. I access the email account (and the two gmail emails I use) via the Thunderbird mail suite.

At the moment I can see all my old TT emails in Thunderbird.

Does anyone know whether I will lose those emails within Thunderbird once the email account is closed, or are they essentially already downloaded within Thunderbird and will still remain visible there?

It depends on how you used it. If you used POP your emails are safe, if you used IMAP, I would suggest moving your email to a local folder - there have been cases where people lost IMAP mail on a service shutdown. 

Yorkie1

Many thanks - I couldn't swear which one it was, so best to go through the download process and save to a folder on my laptop, just in case.

Vitor

If you're using POP3 in Thunderbird, your emails are already saved locally and won't vanish when TalkTalk cuts access, but if it's IMAP, move them to Local Folders to keep them.

Grumpysally

Thanks for that. Just signed in to my account to see if there was anything worth saving. It's mainly duplicate notifications and a lot of spam.
 
I think I can live without my TalkTalk emails, nothing worth paying £50 a year for