Hey Bill On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 3:01 PM, bill hansen <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks Zack - I remember a thread, a month or so ago, about using POP or > IMAP to port emails to the HD. It seemed as if it were a complex process, > and I decided that since I'm not very adept technically, I'd better stay > away from it. I'll do a Google search later today and see if I can find > that process. - Bill This is actually rather trivial. Download and install Mozilla Thunderbird<http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/>(note the clickable link). When you run it for the first time it will offer you to setup an email account with one of their partners. Click the button that says 'Skip this and use my existing email'. On the next step, enter your name (as you would like it displayed on outgoing email), Gmail address and Password. Click the 'Continue' button and Thunderbird will auto-configure the rest for IMAP. Click the 'Done' button and it should connect and start syncing with your Gmail. To back up your email, you will simply just backup your Thunderbird profile directory (usually in %appdata%\Thunderbird\Profiles in Windows). See the profiles page <https://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/profiles> on how to do this. See also the 'Synchronization & Storage' section under your Gmail account settings in Thunderbird for more options. HTH! -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
