ot: migrating TB user's email to new laptop

[Philip McGaw]

But the emails are on the old laptop?

Can you send a screenshot of the left hand folder tree?

Sent from my iPhone

> On 25 May 2016, at 07:37, voytek at sbt.net.au wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, May 25, 2016 4:31 pm, Philip McGaw wrote:
>> Did user historically have POP set up?
> 
> Philip, thanks
> 
> no, not for a long time, IMAP/143/StartTLS on old laptop
> 
>> If you still have access to the old laptop set up imap and move the
>> emails back.
> 
> yes, I have old laptop here.
> sorry, not sure how to, is that inside TBird, or how ? (not very familiar
> with TBird...)
> 
>>> another OT:
>>> 
>>> setting up new W10 laptop with TBird:
>>> 
>>> user has three accounts, several hundred emails on old laptop BUT NO
>>> LONGER on server
>>> 
>>> 
>>> two of the accounts are on my Dovecot server, one on ISP server
>>> 
>>> what's best way to transfer local emails:
>>> 
>>> transfer TBird files laptop to laptop ? or, is there some way to sync
>>> old laptop to server, then retrieve on new laptop ?
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> 
>>> V
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