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How to restore mail data after removing a mailbox from Thunderbird

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tamas.tick
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Dear Support,

I have recently removed a mailbox from Thunderbird that was set up as IMAP and when removing I have unticked the opption "delete mail data" because I wanted to keep my mails. Now I have setted up the same mailbox as POP3 but could not find how to restore the "sent mail" data. Tried to look for in the appdata but only found the file for the recently setted up mailbox and that is empty obviously. Could you please help me where can I find the data of the deleted mailbox and how to restore it? Thanks for the help Cheers Tamas

Dear Support, I have recently removed a mailbox from Thunderbird that was set up as IMAP and when removing I have unticked the opption "delete mail data" because I wanted to keep my mails. Now I have setted up the same mailbox as POP3 but could not find how to restore the "sent mail" data. Tried to look for in the appdata but only found the file for the recently setted up mailbox and that is empty obviously. Could you please help me where can I find the data of the deleted mailbox and how to restore it? Thanks for the help Cheers Tamas

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sfhowes
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Help/Troubleshooting, Profile Folder, Open Folder, close TB, open the account subfolder in ImapMail, e.g. ImapMail/imap.gmail.com, look for the mbox file (large, with no extension) named Sent or Sent Items or Sent Mail, copy it into Mail/Local Folders, restart TB, and see if the folder appears under Local Folders in the Folder Pane.