Portions of this content are 19982020 by individual contributors. Clicking the button will start the download and if everything is configured correctly i. Mozilla thunderbird is a free email program that offers a range of options for pc users without access to robust paid software like microsoft outlook. Use the imap settings below to download your email from aol mail into a thirdparty email app, like thunderbird, outlook, or mac mail. How to access imap inbox offline in mozilla thunderbird lifewire. Thunderbird is now part of mzla technologies corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of mozilla foundation. For accounts with a lot of content, it can take several days or longer to download everything. Nonsynchronized messages are still accessible within thunderbird. I see no option to do this in thunderbird or shaw webmail. To see whether your account uses imap or pop, check the server settings page in. Your system doesnt meet the requirements to run thunderbird. My shaw inbox is full and am currently using thunderbird. Imap stands for the internet message access protocol.
This includes copying, moving, reading, and deleting messages. Thunderbird is a free email application thats easy to set up and customize and its loaded with great features. How to prevent thunderbird to download all emails after fresh install. The only difference is that rather than downloading the entire message, only the message. As we all know that imap is also known as internet message access protocol, which is helpful to access emails on a web server from the local machine like computers, mobile phones, tablets, etc. Repeat moving webmail emails into inbox, downloading to thunderbird and moving into new folder. Whats happening, very slowdownloading x of xxxxxx messages. Imap internet message access protocol is a network protocol used to access email messages while they are still stored on the server. If the mail account setup dialog box doesnt open, do the following.
Below, we provide instructions for backing up your mail with thunderbird, which is. Imap mail backup tool to restore imap server emails in msg. If you are using imap, there have been reports that thunderbird may repeatedly attempt to download the same messages if its copy of the folder. Thunderbird download all emails from imap thunderbird. To back up email locally, you will need to configure an email client to download your mail. Force thunderbird to download all messages pop3 and imap. How can i force thunderbird to download all emails by imap. Imap synchronization thunderbird help mozilla support. The mail account setup dialog box will open the first time that you open thunderbird.
It enables a mail client such as thunderbird to access messages stored on a mail server. Click on the email account you wish to limit synchronization. Back up your mail on your computer using thunderbird. Download your email from aol mail with imap aol help. How to move thunderbird local folders to another computer. So basically you dont download messages from all mail and you should be ok. Go to toolsoptionsgeneralconfig editor or in more recent versions edit preferencesadvancedgeneralconfig editor.
Tick the keep messages for this account on this computer checkbox to force thunderbird to download all messages locally. Make the received column in imap folders show when messages were actually received. Download thunderbird english us windows xpvista windows msi 64bit. Repeatably downloading the same messages mozillazine. You are going to set up the email client to download your emails using pop, which is a mail protocol a way of downloading your mail. So how can i force thunderbird to download all old messages about 1gb worth. How to access your imap emails in mozilla thunderbird, mozilla.
This means that imap lets you access messages stored in a remote folder as if it were a local folder. Imap is the most helpful protocol to retrieve email messages from cloudbased servers to the local computer via providing imap host name and port number. I need to download all of the messages via imap so i can delete the old ones. It is more modern and fully featured than pop post office protocol, which is the other major protocol for accessing mail messages.