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1. CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT INSTALL
2. CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT UPDATE
3. CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT ARCHIVE
4. CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT DOWNLOAD

All you need to do in the future is run Thunderbird to grab the newest emails and update your archive. When the downloading is done you’ll have an up-to-date backup of your Gmail (or other web-based email) account.

CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT DOWNLOAD

In the case of our test account it took 37 batches to download all 17,000+ emails dating back almost a decade. Be prepared, if you have a big account, to leave it running for awhile. You’ll never see a massive download of all your email at one time.

Here is one of the quirks of POP downloading, each batch will be roughly 400-600 messages in size. Thunderbird will continue to check your email every minute and download new messages bit by bit. If Thunderbird isn’t already downloading email, click Get Mail in the corner to start the process.Īt this point everything is on autopilot. When you’re done click OK in the corner and return to the main Thunderbird dashboard. We don’t want Thunderbird getting any wise ideas and deleting anything.

This operation is totally backup-oriented. Under Disk Space make sure Don’t delete any messages is checked (it should be, by default). Also make sure Leave messages on server is checked and uncheck For at most… and Until I delete them.īefore we leave the configuration stage, click on the Junk Settings at the top of the left hand column and uncheck Enable adaptive junk mail controls…, the Thunderbird spam filtering is great when you’re using it as a primary client but we don’t want it to do anything but a straight download of our messages. For the initial download we need the frequency of checks really high. Change the Check for new messages every 10 minutes setting to 1 minute. Click on Server Settings under your account login name on the left hand side of the window. While we’re still in the Account Settings screen we need to check a few very important settings before leaving. Baring that, you’ll find yourself back at the Account Settings screen. Thunderbird will authenticate your account against the server and warn you if the authentication fails.

CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT ARCHIVE

If you find yourself wanting to use Thunderbird as a full time client, you can easily switch back to IMAP once you have an archive of your old emails.Ĭlick Create Account and you’re in business. For our archiving purpose, however, POP is a superior choice as it will easily and with no fuss download all the old email messages (not just the new ones). If you were planning on using Thunderbird as your daily email client, IMAP would be a vastly superior choice (IMAP allows you to work with email like a remote access file share instead of downloading it to your local machine). We’re going to switch from the default of IMAP to POP. For a significant number of web-mail providers Thunderbird will auto-populate the server information (courtesy of the Mozilla ISP Database) as seen in the screenshot below. If you’re satisfied with a local backup (or your backup service nabs your entire drive at one time) go ahead and proceed with the installation without any modifications.Īfter running Thunderbird for the first time, navigate to Tools –> Account Settings and then click on Account Actions (located in the lower left corner).įill in your username and password then click continue. Also, depending on which backup service you use and how much space you have, you might consider installing Thunderbird to your Dropbox (or similar service) directory so that your local backup will also be stored remotely.

CHANGE PASSWORD ON THUNDERBIRD EMAIL ACCOUNT INSTALL

If you’re a Windows user you may consider opting to install Thunderbird portable so that you can have a totally self-contained installation suitable for transferring/backing up to a USB drive. Installing Thunderbird is straight forward but there are a few things you may want to consider based on your needs and desire for additional backups.

When messages are accessed with POP keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox. In the case of Gmail, our test service for this tutorials, you’ll need to navigate to Options –> Mail Settings –> Forwarding and POP/IMAP and then toggle the following settings 1. Enabling Remote Access and Email Server Informationĭepending on the web-based email you’re using you may need to enable access before proceeding. The steps we’ll be guiding you through, however, will work for Thunderbird on any OS and for any web-based email provider which allow you to access your email through a third-party client-in fact, Thunderbird does an excellent job detecting the necessary information just from your email address.