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delete an email account but save and access old emails

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I have had two email accounts for over 10 years. I have stored every important email locally in my Mac. There are many such important emails. I have closed both accounts with the email service provider and am no longer receiving emails addressed to those two addresses.

I want to delete both accounts from Thunderbird. However, i. I do not want to lose the past emails I have received in those two accounts and ii. Once the accounts have been deleted, how would I go about searching for and reading those old emails.

Thanks for your help,

Francisco

I have had two email accounts for over 10 years. I have stored every important email locally in my Mac. There are many such important emails. I have closed both accounts with the email service provider and am no longer receiving emails addressed to those two addresses. I want to delete both accounts from Thunderbird. However, i. I do not want to lose the past emails I have received in those two accounts and ii. Once the accounts have been deleted, how would I go about searching for and reading those old emails. Thanks for your help, Francisco

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Create subfolders of Local Folders for each account, then copy the messages to those subfolders. The accounts can then be removed under Tools/Account Settings, Account Actions, and the mail in Local Folders will remain and be available to view and search.

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Create subfolders of Local Folders for each account, then copy the messages to those subfolders. The accounts can then be removed under Tools/Account Settings, Account Actions, and the mail in Local Folders will remain and be available to view and search.

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Thank you very much. This is great.

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I want to delete some email accounts from old laptop I am giving to my wife so just hers are on this laptop. I read an old article and now this article I have included a screen shot which shows after goting to tools>Account Settings I do not have an Accout action to remove

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It's at the bottom left, hidden in plain sight (see picture). The default (top) account be removed until another account is set as default, in Account Actions.