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Access emails from a closed account

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Liam
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After my wife recently passed, I closed her email account. She, as I, had been using Thunderbird and I have her profile and all of the email files. I want to add an email account to TB so I can read these emails as they contain information pertaining to the charity we support. TB will NOT create an account without an active email to which it can connect. I need a way to add a "dead" account using her profile and email files but without reopening the original email account for which there would be a fee.

It would be great if TB would allow this but I've tried several approaches and none work but then I may have been doing it wrong.

Suggestions would be appreciated.

William

After my wife recently passed, I closed her email account. She, as I, had been using Thunderbird and I have her profile and all of the email files. I want to add an email account to TB so I can read these emails as they contain information pertaining to the charity we support. TB will NOT create an account without an active email to which it can connect. I need a way to add a "dead" account using her profile and email files but without reopening the original email account for which there would be a fee. It would be great if TB would allow this but I've tried several approaches and none work but then I may have been doing it wrong. Suggestions would be appreciated. William

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If you already have an active account in TB, Local Folders is available to read mail folders from other profiles. Look in the other profile's Mail/<popserver>, Mail/Local Folders and ImapMail/<imapserver> locations, and sbd subdirectories, for the mbox files - the large files with no extension, named after folders, e.g. Inbox, Sent. Copy mbox files into Mail/Local Folders of the active profile, with TB closed, then restart TB and find the folders under Local Folders in the Folder Pane.

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If you already have an active account in TB, Local Folders is available to read mail folders from other profiles. Look in the other profile's Mail/<popserver>, Mail/Local Folders and ImapMail/<imapserver> locations, and sbd subdirectories, for the mbox files - the large files with no extension, named after folders, e.g. Inbox, Sent. Copy mbox files into Mail/Local Folders of the active profile, with TB closed, then restart TB and find the folders under Local Folders in the Folder Pane.

Liam
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sfhowes: Thank you for the very quick response and that it worked! Great support! Thank you! William