Mozilla Thunderbird

[MTbowels]

In the past, I've spent hours saving emails from my webmail account (mail.com) onto my hard drive by copying them into a Word document and saving the document to my hard drive.

I've recently discovered the joys of Thunderbird, which opens my emails without me having to log into mail.com. All the emails I've sent and received are shown in Thunderbird from the date I first joined mail.com.

What I'm not sure about is what Thunderbird is doing to my emails. Are the sent and received emails permanently archived in the program or is it pulling up the emails each time the program starts off the mail server. I'd like to know because if they're stored within Thunderbird on my hard drive, I'll no longer have to transfer them manually to my hard drive.

Thanks

[snags]

All your emails are also sent to Thunderbird when they are received in your normal email account. You have the choice to either leave them in your Thunderbird 'in' box or move them to the 'archive' folder.

When 'archived' the emails are stored on Thunderbird's remote server... for an amount of time you can specify under 'tools' > 'account settings' > 'server settings'.

[MTbowels]

Thanks Snags. I wonder if you can clarify something for me. I've just been looking at the account settings part of Thunderbird. Under the "Synchronisation & Storage" tab, there's a tick in the box next to "Keep messages for this account on this computer".
Can I assume that this means that all my messages are now permanently stored on my hard drive?

Thanks

[MTbowels]

I can't seem to find the archived duration via the path you specified. It doesn't even seem to be under the "advanced" button.
Please excuse me for being thick!

[ChuckFickens]

yes they are, see link below for how to back all your mails, contacts etc up to another location.

http://email.about.co...qt/et_backup_prof.htm

[MTbowels]

Thanks Chuck. I'm very grateful.