combine multiple email accounts/profiles into one profile NOT unified inbox
I have several POP accounts from one email service each with its own profile, and several other (IMAP) accounts from another service that share a profile, which includes access to local folders that store saved email from all three accounts. I like the shared profile as I can see all accounts there by opening Thunderbird once, but I have no interest in seeing the email from multiple accounts in the same inbox for organizational reasons. Apparently I created the shared profile when I first opened those accounts. I am interested in combining the now separate POP accounts/profiles so that they all open at once in TB, but not in the same profile as those currently sharing a profile again for organizational reasons. End results two profiles one for service one and one for service two each of which opens showing all the accounts from that service and having local folders that are shared. Is it possible to do that? I expect there may be a problem with combining local folders which are currently in three separate profiles so the stored emails are accessible in the combined profile. In that event, I would plan to keep the separate profiles only to access those stored emails and disconnect them from getting new email using them only to access the local folder stores they already contain, and use the new combined profile to get new emails and store only new email copies locally.
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This is confusing. You state that you want to combine into one profile, but then state that you want multiple profiles. Maybe it would help if you put what you want in one profile on one line and what you want in the other profile on a separate line. Use of unified folders is a user option and not required. Local folders can be easily copied from one profile to another, once you figure what you want. Tell us with more detail of the examples.
I got lost trying to follow the full explanation, but the exact details don't matter. In order to combine multiple profiles into one, you'll have to set up the accounts in the profile you want to use. For IMAP accounts you won't have to do anything else, since mail is stored on the server and will appear in the new profile as result of setting up the account there. For POP accounts or mail moved to Local Folders, you may transfer mail stored in one profile to another by merely moving around the mbox files (text files in mbox format without filename extension) that Thunderbird uses to store mail locally on your computer.
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