Forum Discussion
Telus Mail to Gmail
We've always used IMAP and POP and have never used webmail, does this changeover affect us?
Yes, they do, but none of the previous inbox emails I've had for the last 5 years. Just since the day I migrated.
I am a bit puzzled by your set up. Wasn't Thunderbird downloading all your email each time you opened Thunderbird? Mine did and saved a copy of all the email on my hard drive. Were your accounts set up with POP3? I would think your computer should have a copy of all the old email...
Thank you for trying.
I'm afraid I am at the end of my ideas. My folders have file names with no extensions that match my email folder names. There are also same names with .msf extendions which are small. There is a Thunderbird forum, but I posted there and got zero help with an issue I was having with the Calendar.
So I opened the telus-1.net folder in the mail file with a text editor. I saw "To: xxxxx" and the name of the account I lost. Only saw it once and was mostly gibberish to me. If that is the folder I lost, how do I get it back?
Does the previous message I posted about the file sizes indicate that to you? I don't know enough. Also, my email addy had an actual name to it so I don't know how what to do at this point. I mean, if they are still there, how do I get to them?
If there are files in these folders with the names of your email folders of some size, then this would suggest there is some hope that they have not been lost.
I'm sorry but they're all folders,not files.
mail.telus.net has over 1,000,000 kb in its inbox
telus-1.net has over 700,000 in its inbox
pop.telus.net has 115kb
pop.telus-1.net 1,868kb
pop.telus-2.net 3,131kb
smart mailboxes 0
What are the sizes of those files. Wondering if they have actual emails in them, or are empty...
I have these
C:\Users\14033\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxx.default\Mail
mail.telus.net
mail.telus-1.net
pop.telus.net
pop.telus-1.net
pop.telus-2.net
smart mailboxes
then
C:\Users\14033\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ImapMail
imap.gmail.com
imap.gmail-1.com
imap.gmail-2.com
imap.gmail-3.com
imap.telus.net
imap.telus-1.net
imap.telus-2.net
then a repeat of the above with .msf files
I feel there must be a way to restore my 1st important thunderbird inbox but I have no clue as to how to do it.
I appreciate you taking the time to read this.
Not sure if this will help you but my new gmail account emails are stored in this folder:
C:\Users\Ron\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\ImapMail\imap.gmail.com
This is a bit interesting as I don't recall to having the mail stored on my C: drive which is a SSD.
My old Telus email is stored here on my 😧 hard drive. When I upgraded to a SSD I moved most of my data to the 😧 drive.
D:\Users\Ron\Documents\Thunderbird\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\Mail\pop.telus.net
Yes Thunderbird downloaded everything. I removed that particular account when I saw that all my old emails were still in Thunderbird with the imap setup. Three weeks later, when I did another migrate, they vanished from the 1st account I migrated. I understand they should still be there somewhere but I don't know where. They appeared in the 2nd account I migrated (in Thunderbird) but not in the 3rd or 4th and they disappeared from the 1st. I've looked in Thunderbird folder but can't see the actual email names so I amlost. I followed Thunderbird's instructions to get back a removed account but it says the account isn't there. However, Thunderbird also says the last two I migrated aren't there either and I never even removed those two and they very clearly ARE there.
