By MooK
I’m transitioning from a VPS to DigitalOcean after my machine suffered a catastrophic failure due to a loss of power, resulting in a completely corrupted Maildir folder. Now, I’ve got two accounts in Thunderbird:
Now, when I connect back to the corrupted host, because it’s running on IMAP, it dumps all of the local data in Thunderbird (good thing for local backups.)
When I move to DigitalOcean this week (I’m installing software to the droplet now!) I’d like to setup a new mailserver and a smooth transition, and as I’m doing it, it would be really nice if I could combine these accounts and retain the folders, and consistent email history that I’ve lost.
I’ll be using this guide:
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thank you.
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Seems used a round about way of getting mail from my gmail account into my droplet.
Since your Account 1 is already local I would try to find a way to back it up locally.
Once your droplet is created create a NEW account in thunderbird (account 3). Then if I remember correctly I just drag and dropped folders from my Google account folders (Your account 1) to my droplets account folders. (your account 3).
Follow a similar pattern to get your account 2 moved over.
You might be able to find a more automated way of doing this but I only had 4 physical email boxes to deal with so it didn’t take long.
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