On 1/15/2018 8:32 AM, Lil Sparrow wrote: > Jonathan N. Little wrote: > >> Firstly you have never said if this was POP3 or IMAP mail. This is >> very significant because it determines *where* the email is actually >> stored. >> >> If is was POP3 then the actually messages would be located on your >> hard drive in subdirectories under Mail within your profile directory: >> >> Enter "about:support" in the browser url bar >> >> Under "Application Basics" find "Profile Folder" and click "Open >> Folder" button. >> >> There should be a "Mail" subdirectory. If you are restoring your >> backup to the correct location all your POP3 accounts would be there >> with names like mail.example.com or pop.example.com > > I use POP3. I was told a long time ago that using IMAP removes all the > mails from the server once they are download to an email client.
Someone gave you incredibly wrong information there. In fact it is completely the reverse. Post Office Protocol 3 (pop3) downloads new mails from the server to your e-mail client then deletes them from the server unless you specifically configure your e-mail client not to delete after download. Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Stores all messages on the server. With many e-mail clients, including SeaMonkey, you can configure the mail client to store the messages locally as well. > > There's nothing in the Mail subdirectory except what is already on the > machine. I can't get any email to download except what was download > after installing SeaMonkey initially. That is what I would expect to happen if the old machine was also using pop3 as they would be deleted as soon as they were downloaded. If you can get to the profile folder of the old machine you *MAY* be able to retrieve the old saved messages. > > Thank you for your help. I'll see if I can get my old machine stabilised > and use that instead of the new machine. > > Lil Sparrow > > Regards Keith McKenna
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