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Downloading emails sent via webmail to Thunderbird

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KnickNut3

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Would appreciate some help here.

I download my pop mail to Thunderbird. When I'm not home I access it using webmail, so if I send mail when away it gets saved as sent mail on the server.

Is there a simple way I can download these messages to (1) make my database of mail to search more complete, and (2) clean up the server?

Thanks for the help.
 
i speak his language lol.... I don't think thats possible unless you uncheck the box to leave messages on the sever.


go to www.logmein.com and look for the Free one there is a free one totally free

its remote computer
 
POP and IMAP are completely different. Using POP, you (usually) download all of your mail to your local client, which sounds like what you are doing with Thunderbird. IMAP is used by leaving the mail on the server, and the client performs operations and etc on the server's copy of the mail. I very much prefer IMAP to POP, though IMAP is frequently unusable for folks on dialup, and POP becomes their hero.

To answer your question: no, there's usually not any easy way. If you were to do it all in one fell swoop, you could probably log into your webmail client, move your sent messages into your inbox, and then Thunderbird would (probably) download them, and you could move them over into your sent items folder.
 
even with the "leave a copy" option set for POP, it will only "sync" your inbox. POP cannot sync other custom folders, that's what IMAP is for. Change your client to use IMAP, and then archive your mail however frequently you need to the local folders. Also, set Thunderbird to store a copy of sent messages in the IMAP sent items folder, so that you can view all your sent messages from webmail and thunderbird.
 
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) offers free IMAP accounts to anyone with an AIM screenname. When I discovered this, I leapt for joy I transferred all my mail into two of my screenname accounts. Thunderbird does have a little trouble with IMAP, but I still use it (Thunderbird) as my main mail client.
 
I think GeekDrew most closely understands what I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about messages I receive. I download them to TB and don't leave them on the server, and that's fine.
I'm not talking about messages I send from TB. TB automatically saves a copy of those.
I'm talking about messages I send through the web-based client when I'm away from home. I logged into my part of the server but the mail folders were empty. But perhaps I can try to find it and move the files into the folder TB usually DL's from?
 
Hmm, moving the sent messages to my Inbox seems to be a cheap fix, thanks GeekDrew.

Only problem is I can only do them 20 at a time, oh well.
 
Originally posted by: KnickNut3
I think GeekDrew most closely understands what I'm talking about.

I'm not talking about messages I receive. I download them to TB and don't leave them on the server, and that's fine.
I'm not talking about messages I send from TB. TB automatically saves a copy of those.
I'm talking about messages I send through the web-based client when I'm away from home. I logged into my part of the server but the mail folders were empty. But perhaps I can try to find it and move the files into the folder TB usually DL's from?
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If you log into your web mail interface, are you able to access your sent messages? If so, there is probably some function somewhere that lets you move those messages into a different folder. You want to move them into the inbox, to allow Thunderbird to get them.

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Originally posted by: KnickNut3
Hmm, moving the sent messages to my Inbox seems to be a cheap fix, thanks GeekDrew.

Only problem is I can only do them 20 at a time, oh well.
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Seems you got it to work.

Yeah... it's a bit of a PITA but that's probably the easiest method to use for POP.
 
Don't know, I imagine it depends completely on whatever webmail software is in use and how it handles sent mail. I use Gmail with Thunderbird, and Gmail automatically includes mail I sent from the web interface during POP downloads. I just set up a filter to send it to my Sent box and all my mail is in Thunderbird for future reference.
 
Right, that is a good feature of Gmail.

Well, I got it to work by moving everything to the inbox, downloading, and moving it back to sent. Got it to increase the messages/page so it didn't take forever.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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