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Best method to achive/backup IMAP email accounts before domain/hosting is cancelled?

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BradMakesNoises
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Hi,

I have six IMAP email accounts that will cease to exist in a few weeks when I don't renew the domain/hosting where they reside.

Most of these accounts include invoices for purchases, and serial numbers etc that I need to have access to after the accounts will die, so just being able to read them offline. Even down the track when I inevitably build a new PC, I'll still want to have access to theses messages offline.

What is best practice for archiving or backing up these so I can still read them in future? Is there a way to archive so that I can read them in other clients in future? or I can only archive in a way that will be Thunderbird only?

Also... how do I get Thunderbird to allow me to read the messages from these accounts, without checking for new messages on these accounts, which would give error popups every time?

I've never had to do this before, and when I've searched around the results seem super confusing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In case its relevant, my current Thunderbird version is 115.12.1 and running latest update of Win 10.

Hi, I have six IMAP email accounts that will cease to exist in a few weeks when I don't renew the domain/hosting where they reside. Most of these accounts include invoices for purchases, and serial numbers etc that I need to have access to after the accounts will die, so just being able to read them offline. Even down the track when I inevitably build a new PC, I'll still want to have access to theses messages offline. What is best practice for archiving or backing up these so I can still read them in future? Is there a way to archive so that I can read them in other clients in future? or I can only archive in a way that will be Thunderbird only? Also... how do I get Thunderbird to allow me to read the messages from these accounts, without checking for new messages on these accounts, which would give error popups every time? I've never had to do this before, and when I've searched around the results seem super confusing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. In case its relevant, my current Thunderbird version is 115.12.1 and running latest update of Win 10.

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david
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- click account's synnchronization&storage advanced button to verify all folders can be downloaded for offline use - then click file>offline>download to bring all content to PC - now, if not installed, install the addon, importexporttools. - now, highlight one of the folders to save, rightclick and click the importexportmenu - from here you can select export to mbox (which is the default thunderbird format, but can be imported elsewhere) - you can also click the exportimport menu to export as individual eml messages that can also be viewed elsewhere - to keep them in thunderbird after losing the account: do this 

   - click to Local Folders, and create a new empty folder for each of the folders to keep
   - now, highlight and rightclick and select importexport menu to import one of the mbox files your exported in previous step 
   - repeat for all folders and you will have all the messages in their folders in Local folders

- when all of these steps are done and you're satisfied that you have what you want, you can delete the accounts.

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