Export mail from thunderbird to fastmail

paul444 · 18 Apr 2018, 06:48 AM

A family member died who used Thunderbird. He has it set up to download all mail to the local drive and deleted from the email provider. I would like to create a folder for him in my fastmail account and have all of his thunderbird mail and folders exported to my fastmail folder. How do I go about doing this?

BritTim · 18 Apr 2018, 08:34 AM

This is easy, but time consuming.

There are two separate tasks

Add your FastMail account as an IMAP account in Thunderbird. Create a new folder under your account in FastMail using Thunderbird. Select all the emails in the local folders and move them to the new folder in your FastMail account. Depending on your Internet connection and the number/size of the emails, expect it to take hours to days for all the messages to actually upload to FastMail.
Remove the POP account for your family member's old account in Thunderbird. In the FastMail web interface, go to Settings->Identities & Fetch and add the old account as a POP account.

18 Apr 2018, 06:48 AM	#1
paul444 Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 5	Export mail from thunderbird to fastmail A family member died who used Thunderbird. He has it set up to download all mail to the local drive and deleted from the email provider. I would like to create a folder for him in my fastmail account and have all of his thunderbird mail and folders exported to my fastmail folder. How do I go about doing this? Last edited by paul444 : 18 Apr 2018 at 07:03 AM.

18 Apr 2018, 08:34 AM	#2
BritTim The "e" in e-mail Join Date: May 2003 Location: mostly in Thailand Posts: 3,090	This is easy, but time consuming. There are two separate tasks Add your FastMail account as an IMAP account in Thunderbird. Create a new folder under your account in FastMail using Thunderbird. Select all the emails in the local folders and move them to the new folder in your FastMail account. Depending on your Internet connection and the number/size of the emails, expect it to take hours to days for all the messages to actually upload to FastMail. Remove the POP account for your family member's old account in Thunderbird. In the FastMail web interface, go to Settings->Identities & Fetch and add the old account as a POP account.