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Moving emails from and old email account

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Alexet
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I have an old IMAP email account which I cannot connect to any more. I would like to keep all the emails locally. Currently I keep getting login to IMAP sever failed (as I no longer have an account on the server). I have tried to move the emails to a local folder but it will only copy one at a time. Any attempt to move more than one email causes me to get a message about login failed. Is there an easier way to do this or do I have to move all emails one by one (All 5000 of them).

I have an old IMAP email account which I cannot connect to any more. I would like to keep all the emails locally. Currently I keep getting login to IMAP sever failed (as I no longer have an account on the server). I have tried to move the emails to a local folder but it will only copy one at a time. Any attempt to move more than one email causes me to get a message about login failed. Is there an easier way to do this or do I have to move all emails one by one (All 5000 of them).

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christ1
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Did you have synchronization enabled for the account? In other words, did you download an offline copy of your messages on the server to your local disk?