On 3/16/17 10:05 AM, njoracle wrote:
WaltS48 wrote:
On 3/16/17 9:25 AM, TCW wrote:
On 3/16/2017 8:12 AM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
TCW wrote:
On 3/16/2017 6:30 AM, Arnie Goetchius wrote:
Yahoo is eliminating POP3 on 3/31/2017 and therefore I have to switch
to IMAP
and I understand I will have to create a new email account for IMAP.
All my past
emails are stored on my computer, not on the Yahoo server except for
the last
two months or so. I am looking for a reference on Mozilla that gives an
explanation of (1) how to convert from POP3 to IMAP and (2) copy my
old POP3
emails to my new IMAP account. Any suggestions for a good Help file?
Someone in a similar boat asked this question and I responded like so:
If *all* of your email is on the server and nothing is stored locally,
you'll be ok to:
1. Create a new account in Seamonkey that will be your IMAP account with
IMAP server settings.
2. Once the IMAP account is up and running and all looks well, set it as
the Default account.
3. Delete the POP3 account.
Is should be as simple as that. If you do have some mail stored locally,
create a new folder in Local Folder called TEMP or HOLD (or whatever)
and move your local mail there and then go through steps 1, 2 and 3.
When done, just move the mail back from TEMP or HOLD.
Thanks. I'll test the procedure out on my "spare" computer to make sure
it works. Under my current mail account of 50-100 filters, I have 50-100
folders so this could get complicated
Yeah, it would. I'm not sure how to port over the filters to the IMAP account.
Maybe someone could chime in.
Copy the msgFilterRules.dat file, from the POP3 account, to the IMAP account in
your profile.
That takes care of the filters. I would first have to create the corresponding
folders in the IMAP account. Is there any .dat file that holds that information?
In my four Thunderbird's and two SeaMonkey's, I've only copied the
filters file to my POP3 account after recreating the folders. I get an
error message if I have forgotten to create a folder and the filter
can't work.
I've never tried copying the mbox and .msf files from the same folder
the msgFilterRules.dat is located.
An experiment for another time or day.
But it appears that as pointed out in the other Yahoo thread that it is
POP import that is being discontinued, so there is no need to set up an
IMAP account.
<https://help.yahoo.com/kb/mail-for-desktop/sln28161.html>
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