Forum Discussion
Telus Mail to Gmail
We've always used IMAP and POP and have never used webmail, does this changeover affect us?
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
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.
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...
