I got a new phone and I really woukd like to get draft and sent emails from my old phone loaded on my new phone in k9 mail.
Can I do this? If so, how please?
If you use IMAP then they’ll automatically be there. If you’re still using the outdated POP3 method then not a chance. Unless you send/forward them all to yourself from the old phone I guess.
Thanks Nimueh.
Yes I use Pop3. Can’t forward them as the old phone is dead. I thought maybe I could hook up via USBc from my old phone to my PC and manually move files and then do USBc to my new phone. I have done that kind of thing for Deja office contacts that didn’t transfer in the past.
As there are still many people using POP3 it would be great if K9/Tunderbird could add a feature to backup and restore local mails - this would help for these migration requests
Better yet. Dump pop3 from the app.
While IMAP has been the only sensible choice when using email on more than one device for more than three decades, removing POP from the app goes too far. K-9 could easily present a warning so that anyone who insists on using POP has at least been given a chance to make a better choice, but the responsibility ultimately falls to the user.
Pop3 serves no useful purpose. Time to bite the bullet.
Now that cketti is leaving, there might be less vehement opposition to such a feature.
Have you put in a feature request over at Mozilla?
No, did not. Also, I am not using POP3 but IMAP, so the feature would not for me. I just wanted to say that there should be a way to savely backup local data (including POP3 mails) so that people do not loose them - or some kind of migration path…
For me it would also be OK no longer to allow new POP3 accounts - but what about all of the current POP3 users?
I use Pop3 to INITIALLY get my emails on my phone and to be able to respond quickly. I then allow the server to dump the emails onto my PC ehen o logon to my PC which then clears them from my phone. For legal reasons I need to keep some emails longterm and I DON’T want that on my phone, but on my backed up PC.
So if this functionality was removed, I would leave K9Mail
Respectfully request that POP3 is kept
You can all of that and more just fine with IMAP - read up on it. POP3 has been outdated for years now and you should really switch over to IMAP.
POP still has it’s uses, but the cases are extremely narrow. General purpose use on a mobile device is not on my list.
POP is perfect as an alternative to forwarding when you want all messages to be delivered to another mailbox and DMARC policy interferes.