I have a general question concerning Thunderbird in Ubuntu 18.04: If I remove my mail account from Thunderbird, but had IMAP configured, will all my mails be lost?
Thanks in advance.
asked Mar 26, 2020 at 22:24
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Doubtful. Unless you also deleted all the emails before hand,– grahamMar 27, 2020 at 7:57
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Ähm, you broke off your sentence in the middle.– Anonymous5638Mar 27, 2020 at 8:36
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No, it was complete. Poor eyesight so hit , instead of .– grahamMar 27, 2020 at 9:08
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No. IMAP treats the server as the primary data store, so all your messages will remain on the server.
POP, on the other hand, treats the client (i.e. Thunderbird) as the primary data store, so messages would be deleted in that case.
This is part of the protocols, so your OS, client (Thunderbird), and mail provider (posteo) are irrelevant.
Actually, I have a posteo-account and so I just wrote the support team an email. They told me that the emails wouldn't be deleted if IMAP was used.
(Note that if you set up a posteo-account, it is probably better to just delete your old mail account, just as I did.)
answered Mar 27, 2020 at 21:17