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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 profile folder. Once you've verified that it still exists, do the following to get it back into Thunderbird:

1. Start Thunderbird and create a new mail account, using the same email address and server settings as the account you deleted.

2. Exit Thunderbird and go to your profile folder. Verify that step 1 has created a new folder for this account in the Mail folder.

3. Copy the contents of the folder for the "deleted" account and paste them into the folder you created in step 2.

4. Restart Thunderbird. Your mail should now be in place and ready to use.