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How do I restore e-mails moved from Yahoo mail to Thunderbird

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Yesterday I installed Thunderbird on my Windows 7 system and find that when I launched Thunderbird, messages in my Inbox were moved to Thunderbird. I guess that if I had set up using IMAP rather than POP3, messages would have been copied. I have two questions: 1 Can I restore e-mails to my Yahoo mail Inbox? 2 How should I set up Thunderbird so that I can access e-mails received over a specific time period in future?

Yesterday I installed Thunderbird on my Windows 7 system and find that when I launched Thunderbird, messages in my Inbox were moved to Thunderbird. I guess that if I had set up using IMAP rather than POP3, messages would have been copied. I have two questions: 1 Can I restore e-mails to my Yahoo mail Inbox? 2 How should I set up Thunderbird so that I can access e-mails received over a specific time period in future?

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Zenos
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Set up a second instance of the same account, but using IMAP this time. Then you can move or copy messages from the first account to this new account's Inbox.

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Thanks Zenos. Is there any way I can either move or copy messages now in Thunderbird back to my Yahoo Inbox? I appreciate that if I had set up my Thunderbird account using IMAP, I would have retained messages in Yahoo mail. (an example of my following instructions without fully understanding the process)

Ideally, I would like to use Thunderbird to deal with more recent messages and rely on the Yahoo search facility to access historical messages. It would take a considerable time to transfer all my messages!

I appreciate that maintaining a Yahoo Inbox of ever increasing volume is not best practice.