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I want to move one of 5 POP email accounts to a new laptop

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WindowManMD
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I have 5 POP comcast email acccounts running on TB on a WIn 10 PC desktop. There is one email account for each family member. The POP accounts are set to leave msgs on server for 14d or until I delete them. Now I want to move just one email account to a laptop (Win 10). How do I move just one of the email accounts to the laptop and leave the other 4 on the desktop?

We also access these email accounts via mobile devices, using Xfinity Connect app, although I am not sure it works properly. Should I be using IMAP for these accounts? If so, should I convert to IMAP before I do the above move?

Thank you in advance!

I have 5 POP comcast email acccounts running on TB on a WIn 10 PC desktop. There is one email account for each family member. The POP accounts are set to leave msgs on server for 14d or until I delete them. Now I want to move just one email account to a laptop (Win 10). How do I move just one of the email accounts to the laptop and leave the other 4 on the desktop? We also access these email accounts via mobile devices, using Xfinity Connect app, although I am not sure it works properly. Should I be using IMAP for these accounts? If so, should I convert to IMAP before I do the above move? Thank you in advance!

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Zenos
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The simplest (but not most efficient) way to do this is to copy the whole profile over to the new machine, then simply delete all the unwanted accounts.

A more efficient, but rather more technically challenging method is to set up Thunderbird on the new computer and install the same account. If it downloads any messages, copy these to the Local Folders account. Then close Thunderbird.

Open up the Thunderbird profile in the old computer and look for the subfolder under Mail which corresponds with the account. Open that folder and copy all its contents.

On the second computer, find the corresponding folder under Mail in the new profile, and replace its contents by the material you copied. Then you add in any messages you had previously copied to Local Folders.

Note that you should always close Thunderbird before doing any surgery on its profile.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-thunderbird-stores-user-data