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If you have accidentally deleted one of your mail accounts by clicking on the "Remove Account" button in Thunderbird, this does '''not''' mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. That mail should still exist in a subfolder in the Mail folder in your [[ | If you have accidentally deleted one of your mail accounts by clicking on the "Remove Account" button in Thunderbird, this does '''not''' mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. That mail should still exist in a subfolder in the Mail folder in your [[profile folder]]. (This assumes that the account is not using the [[Global Inbox]], in which case its mail would be stored in [[Local Folders]].) | ||
Once you've gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail for the deleted account still exists, do the following to get it back into Thunderbird. You may wish to make a temporary [[Profile backup|backup]] of your profile folder before proceding. | Once you've gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail for the deleted account still exists, do the following to get it back into Thunderbird. You may wish to make a temporary [[Profile backup|backup]] of your profile folder before proceding. | ||
Revision as of 12:48, 26 December 2005
If you have accidentally deleted one of your mail accounts by clicking on the "Remove Account" button in Thunderbird, this does not mean that your mail has actually been deleted from your computer. That mail should still exist in a subfolder in the Mail folder in your profile folder. (This assumes that the account is not using the Global Inbox, in which case its mail would be stored in Local Folders.)
Once you've gone to your profile folder and verified that the mail for the deleted account still exists, do the following to get it back into Thunderbird. You may wish to make a temporary backup of your profile folder before proceding.
- Start Thunderbird and create a new mail account, using the same email address and server settings as the account you deleted.
- Exit Thunderbird and go to your profile folder. Verify that step 1 has created a new folder for this account in the Mail folder.
- Copy the contents of the folder for the "deleted" account and paste them into the folder you created in step 2.
- Restart Thunderbird. Your mail should now be in place and ready to use.
