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Go to Account Settings/Server Settings and check the option 'Leave messages on server'. If you forget this all mails will be deleted on the server. There is no 2nd chance!
Empty wastebasket in Courier (under construction)
Step 2 - Using Courex
For more detail about this program refer to the help file that comes with the program. Close Courier and Thunderbird. Start Courex and enter in the Courier Box file and Export Destination Folder. Courex is good at guessing it. Otherwise see above.
Then press start and you are done. Exit Courex.
When you open Thunderbird the folders and emails are in the folder 'Local Folders' . In your mailbox above there is no 'Sent' and 'Templates' folder as long as you haven't send at least one mail and made one template. Do that before you drag and drop folders over. Caution! Depending on the mail service you use, you might have to download first all mail into the Inbox, then delete all of them. Then only move the imported mails into the Inbox. If you use the gmail service log in into your online portal and tell gmail under settings only to download the mails from now onwards. Otherwise you might download tons of mail .... You can go online into the web interface first and delete all emails not needed any more. If you migrate somebody else's mailbox ask her/him to do it in advance.
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